Suspecting that von Braun was a communist sympathizer, and that he planned to escape to England with the plans for the V-2 , Heinreich Himmler, chief of the German police, and one of Hitler's most ...

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 ...

Margrit von Braun talks about her father, rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun in Huntsville, Ala. Feb. 19, 2019. The large photo is of her and her father.

Von Braun's singular focus was rockets—and his history on racial issues in Alabama was uneven, at best, and arguably exemplified NASA’s broader conflicts on the issue.

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.

Born to an aristocratic Prussian family, Wernher von Braun became obsessed with space travel early in life, studying fields like physics and mathematics in order to grasp the fundamentals of ...

Wernher von Braun was head of the V-2 rocket development team. The rocket was used in the twilight hours of World War II.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria. She was 96.