a manned space shuttle, a space station, an expedition to set up an outpost on the Moon, and topped it off with the conquest of Mars. In the early 1950s, von Braun was working on ballistic ...

In September of that year, the group delivered its report, which recommended going back to the von Braun paradigm in some fashion: shuttle, space station, manned moon trips and, finally ...

Von Braun's reasoning for such a huge convoy of ... was the re-usable space plane that eventually became the Space Shuttle. It'll never be clear whether spaceflight technology would have actually ...

More work was on the way; called by the telecommunications room, Space Engineer von Braun hurried down the hall, talked to Defense Department Missile Director William Holaday in Washington ...

Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan.

You may soon be able to take a vacation in space. A California-based company ... CNN reports The Gateway Foundation wants to construct the Von Braun Station, and the goal is to have it floating ...

Named after Dr. Wernher von Braun, one of the world's most impactful ... having flown on five space shuttle missions including three to upgrade and service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Dr. von Braun was the famous rocket scientist who masterminded America’s victory in the space race. Von Braun celebrated his very own V-Day on July 20, 1969, when the U.S. put a man on the moon ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96. The rocket center said that Maria von ...