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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

In truth, the story of Wernher Von Braun's ambitions for putting humans on Mars dates back to his earliest days in the U.S. after World War II.

Von Braun, known as the father of the Saturn family of rockets, served as the Marshall Center’s first director. Sumrall was part of the von Braun team from 1962 to 1976.

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.