Early on Oct. 29, NASA in Huntsville will demolish the historic former headquarters building where Wernher von Braun’s team designed the rocket that took America to the moon.

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. ... He built missiles used against Allied cities because it was his national duty in wartime.

NASA today imploded and dropped to the ground its empty, 10-story former Huntsville headquarters building where Wernher von Braun’s rocket team designed and managed the construction of the ...

Fred Schneikert, a private first class in the US Army, accepted the surrender of a group of German rocket scientists at the close of World War II.

Von Braun also gained prestige with his brilliant work at NASA. Because of this and his media exposure, the rocket scientist was well known in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.

In 1945, sensing defeat in World War II, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Allied forces and arrived in the U.S. By 1950, von Braun was moved to Huntsville where he would continue to ...

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center announced the passing of Maria von Braun, Wernher von Braun’s widow on Friday. The center said she died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria, Va. She was 96. “Maria ...

Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 Topic Aeronautics Provenance Mary M. Biddle, Gift, 2011, NASM.2011.0019. Creator ... (NASA) in Hunstville, Alabama, where his main assignment was the development of ...

Nazi rocket scientists, including Wernher von Braun, surrendered to this Sheboygan man in May 1945 Wernher von Braun eventually became part of NASA, where he became the chief architect of the ...

Von Braun was the first director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and a key figure in the development of the Saturn V rocket and NASA’s Apollo program.

May 2 (UPI) --The NASA team behind the James Webb Space Telescope has been awarded the Wernher von Braun Memorial Award by the National Space Society. The award is given every two years and was ...

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.