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 ...

In 1952, von Braun drove the 20 minutes to the all-black Alabama A&M College, to recruit a group of its science majors for a quixotic outreach campaign at a local white high school. One of the A&M ...

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.

Margrit von Braun talks about her father, rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun in Huntsville, Ala. Feb. 19, 2019. The large photo is of her and her father.

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.

In 1945, sensing defeat in World War II, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Allied forces and arrived in the U.S.

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.

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — 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.