Jacob Tyler Hamlin, of Huntsville asks: "Was Wernher von Braun really a Nazi?" Depending on where you come from in the state of Alabama, you have likely either never heard of Wernher von Braun ...

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Dr. Wernher von Braun at his desk with moon lander in background and rocket models on his desk. Dr. von Braun served as Marshall's first director from ...

German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), born in 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany, took an early interest in rockets and the possibility of space exploration. As a young man, he joined the ...

“I knew how Columbus had felt,” he recalled. When he died on June 16, 1977, Wernher von Braun, the son of East Prussian aristocrats, had left an indelible, if ambiguous, legacy as a visionary ...

Eisenhower in 1959 to transfer the rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team from the U.S. Army to the just-created National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was a turning point in ...

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941. Bundesarchiv Michael Neufeld, who chairs the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, recently spoke ...

How on earth did Wernher von Braun have time to put man on the moon in 1969? If you've lived in Huntsville long, you've heard the legend of what von Braun and his rocket team brought to a sleepy ...

Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria. She was 96. Born Maria von Quistorp in ...

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely place. Unless you are a boomer or early Gen Xer you may not even have heard about him. And maybe it’s because he ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von ...

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death. By Michael J. Neufeld Several months ...