On June 8, 1965, one of 20th century America’s most notorious racists was stopped in his tracks by a former Nazi preaching racial integration.

Von Braun was born on March 23, 1912 in Germany. "Wernher von Braun: A Visionary's Influence on UAHuntsville" will be the theme of the event at the M. Louis Salmon Library and will start at 1:30 p.m.

The V-2 program was headed by Wernher von Braun. The German engineer and 126 of his principal engineers were captured by U.S. forces on May 2, 1945.

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 ...

Von Braun died on June 16, 1977, at age 65 after a stellar career at NASA and later at a private satellite firm. His 100th birthday would be March 23, 2012.

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 ...

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 a German engineer who came to the United States at the end of World War II after working for the German war effort designing the V-2 combat rocket. Despite his past and ...

Michael Neufeld talked about his book [Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War], published by Knopf. Mr. Neufeld chronicles the life of Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), a key developer of the ...

Retired Army Materiel Command Historian Michael Baker talks about Wernher von Braun and his team. He recounts the shock of the Sputnik launch, Toftoy “on his hands and knees begging” for ...