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.

Dozens of captured V-2 rockets were launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Eventually, the Army put von Braun and his team to work in Huntsville, Ala., developing ballistic missiles.

Wernher von Braun was head of the V-2 rocket development team. The rocket was used in the twilight hours of World War II. The rocket wizard was quoted in a 1952 Press clipping that if Germany had ...

In 1945, von Braun immigrated to America and became an advisor for V-2 testing in White Sands, New Mexico. In 1960 he became director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National ...

Von Braun wanted the second and third stages of the mighty Saturn V rocket to be powered by kerosene, a fuel he understood from his days in Germany. There, he led development of the alcohol-fueled ...

And in 1960, von Braun became the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle that later carried the first men to the moon.

One of those visionaries was German rocket scientist Wernher Von Braun. A member of the Nazi Party for a while, and responsible for coming up with the German V-2 rockets launched against the UK at ...

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 ...

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.

An out-of-this-world artifact found in Montgomery's time capsule from 1969 was a letter from aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun from a few weeks after Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The capsule ...

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.

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.