As described in Von Braun's The Mars Project, published first in 1952 in a German spaceflight journal and in the U.S. the following year as a slim book, the ferry rocket's first stage, with broad ...

The von Braun archive up for bidding by RR Auction consists of 26 items related to four of the articles in Collier's: "Crossing the Last Frontier," "Man on the Moon: The Journey," "Man on the Moon ...

Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War ...

(For more about von Braun's Nazi past, click here. After the war, von Braun, who orchestrated the surrender of 500 of his rocket scientists to Allied forces, went to work for the U.S. Army.

In the 1960's the Von Braun rocket team had the only capability in the U.S. to conceive, design, develop, fabricate, test and launch an entirely new rocket system.

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.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Graveside services will be Saturday in Huntsville for Hans Joachim Fichtner, an original member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's rocket team that built the Saturn V moon rocket ...

The Space & Rocket Center has about 80 percent of von Braun's archives, she said. "We've had significant (museum) traffic through the winter and a great response" from visitors, Barnhart said.

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.