SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday applauded the contribution of German scientists including Wernher von Braun in America’s space race against Soviet Russia. What Happened: “Indeed.

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.

Of course, the moon landings did take place not long after von Braun visited Muncie. In December 1968, Apollo 8 became the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon. Eight months later, Apollo 11 ...

Born Maria von Quistorp in Berlin in 1928, she married Wernher von Braun in 1947 in Landshut, Germany, under U.S. military guard amid concerns about Soviet efforts to recruit German rocket engineers.

In 1945, von Braun immigrated to America and became an advisor for V-2 testing in White Sands, New Mexico. In 1960 he became director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National ...

Don’t say he’s hypocritical, But rather that he’s apolitical. “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun. Comedian ...

[Wernher von] Braun couldn't find a publisher for it in English in 1950. He was in correspondence with Heinz Hermann Koelle in Stuttgart, who had formed a new German Rocket Society in 1948.