Magnus von Braun, left, Pfc. Frederick P. Schneikert, middle, and Wernher von Braun, right, pose, Tuesday, May 8, 1945, following the two von Braun scientists surrender to the U.S. Army at the end ...

Before he became one of the masterminds of the early spaceflight program in first Nazi Germany then the U.S., Wernher von Braun was a university student who experimented on mice with a friend.

The World War II secretary to German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun has died in Alabama, where she spent much of her postwar life. Dorette “Dorothea” Hertha Kersten Schlidt died Monday in ...

A handwritten notation under von Braun's signature is presumed to have been added by Mrs. Moore. With the letter, von Braun enclosed the original version of the article as he had written it, before it ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from developing Nazi weapons to helping get NASA off the ground for the U.S., wrote a novel in the years after World War II speculating ...

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.

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 ...

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