During the chaos of World War II, Nazi Germany unveiled the V-2 Rocket, the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. Developed by Wernher von Braun, it was a feat of engineering wrapped ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama (AFP) — Wernher von Braun was the rocket engineer who designed the Nazis’ dreaded V-2 missile that rained death on Allied cities in World War II, and later the visionary ...

Wernher von Braun would come to personify NASA's space exploration program. NASA / Science Faction / Corbis In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von ...

Wernher von Braun was the rocket engineer who designed the Nazi's dreaded V-2 missile that rained death on Allied cities in World War II, and later the visionary architect behind the Apollo ...

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 ...

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. By Michael J. Neufeld Several months ...

German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), born in 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany, took an early interest in rockets and the possibility of space exploration. As a young man, he joined the ...

Wernher von Braun in 1956. George Tames/The New York Times Wernher von Braun, Rocket Pioneer With a Dark Past June 16, 2016 ...

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2008, engineer Oscar Carl Holderer, one of Wernher von Braun’s original “Operation Paperclip” team members, holds some technical drawings in his home shop behind ...