HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96. The rocket center said that Maria von ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In November 1937, Wernher von Braun officially joined the Nazi Party. Not joining “would have meant that I would have had to abandon the work of my life,” von Braun later insisted.

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, Wernher, 1912-1977 Topic Aeronautics Provenance Mary M. Biddle, Gift, 2011, NASM.2011.0019. Creator Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 Summary Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun (1912--1977) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96.