Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War II.

Jacob Tyler Hamlin, of Huntsville asks: "Was Wernher von Braun really a Nazi ... and author of the biography von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War, and other accounts provided by ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (AFP) — Wernher von Braun was the rocket engineer who ... she respond to historian Michael Neufeld, who wrote a biography on her father and told AFP the people of Huntsville ...

When he died on June 16, 1977, Wernher von Braun, the son of East Prussian aristocrats ... according to an American National Biography web page about her. She demanded that her son’s body ...

President Carter released a statement: "To millions of Americans, Wernher von Braun's name was inextricably ... obituaries hewed closely to his quasi-official biography and, with a couple of ...

The issue of von Braun’s personal responsibility for those crimes is “controversial,” NASA’s official biography says ... One said Wernher von Braun taught her to water ski, and she ...

That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun ... That’s the gist of the official von Braun biography posted on the web site of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where under ...

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 ...