Depending on where you come from in the state of Alabama, you have likely either never heard of Wernher von Braun, or you think he is a modern day Columbus, responsible for guiding the United ...

If you've lived in Huntsville long, you've heard the legend of what Wernher von Braun and his rocket team brought to a sleepy cotton town. A university. A symphony. A planetarium. The Parkway. A ...

Wernher von Braun and the Nazis 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 led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. ... (2018), among other works. ... the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives.

Sporting a gray double-breasted suit, slicked-back curls and a slide rule, rocket engineer Wernher von Braun cuts a suave, authoritative figure in Disney’s 1955 television special Man and the ...

The claim is based on a portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, ... “No matter how often I tell people that I’m a 5000-year-old alien time ...

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. And maybe it’s because he ...

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941. ... And probably wasn’t even as good as a lot of other people. But as an engineering manager, he had a very rare talent.

Between Sept. 8, 1944 and March 27, 1945, no fewer than 3,172 V-2s struck Belgium, France, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In all, V-2 strikes killed around 9,000 people. What follows is ...

One of the greatest rocket scientists of all time would have been 100 years old on Friday, and his legacy is being celebrated in his adopted home town of Huntsville, Ala.

Re “Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past,” by Lev Golinkin (Opinion guest essay, Dec. 16): I read this article with interest, as I grew up in Huntsville, Ala., where Wernher von ...

"We were drawing off of his [von Braun's] inspiration, which is why we started describing it as the von Braun station," Alatorre said. But, "there have been people who've questioned the name ...