Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed musical satirist, has been in the limelight recently due to his passing on July 26, 2025, at the ...

This encounter would begin the surrender of the famed rocket man Wernher von Braun, along with more than 100 of his scientist colleagues. Holocaust survivor Fela Warschau was almost chosen for Dr ...

THE HUNTSVILLE TIMES "Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Man" premiered at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Monday. Here he is in his office on May 1, 1964.

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.

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.

Born in Stargard in what is now northwestern Poland, Schlidt worked as von Braun’s secretary in the 1940s at the German rocket factory at Peenemuende, where thousands of concentration camp ...

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.

Dorothea Schlidt, Wernher von Braun's secretary during the World War II development of the first military rockets, has died in Huntsville at age 100.

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.

<p>Born in Stargard in what is now northwestern Poland, Schlidt worked as von Braun’s secretary in the 1940s at the German rocket factory at Peenemuende, where thousands of concentration camp ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — 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 ...