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.

Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer, having served the Third Reich as an aerospace engineer. He designed the deadly V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ...

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

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 ...

Wernher von Braun's book — I think it was his, or it could have been Oberth's book — spoke about how the head of the Mars colony would be called "the Elon." ...