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Jacob Tyler Hamlin, of Huntsville asks: "Was Wernher von Braun really a Nazi?" Depending on where you come from in the state of Alabama, you have likely either never heard of Wernher von Braun ...
A kind of Faustian shadow may be discerned in—or imposed on—the fascinating career of Wernher von Braun: a man so possessed of a vision, of an intellectual hunger, that any accommodation may ...
Published On 3 May 20133 May 2013 Wernher von Braun not only created the infamous V-2 rocket, but also was behind the Saturn V [NASA] On Thursday, September 20, 1945, Wernher von Braun arrived at ...
German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), born in 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany, took an early interest in rockets and the possibility of space exploration. As a young man, he joined the ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von ...
Eisenhower in 1959 to transfer the rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team from the U.S. Army to the just-created National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was a turning point in ...
On May 2, 1945, just a few days before World War II ended and two days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun and his team of engineers surrendered to American ...
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 ...
How on earth did Wernher von Braun have time to put man on the moon in 1969? If you've lived in Huntsville long, you've heard the legend of what von Braun and his rocket team brought to a sleepy ...
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. And maybe it’s because he ...