In his career with the Army and NASA, he was instrumental in building the Pershing, Redstone, Jupiter, and Jupiter-C ballistic missiles, the Explorer satellite, Saturn 1 and Saturn V boosters, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — You don’t have to go far ...

Margrit von Braun came home to Huntsville Tuesday night to talk about growing up in Alabama as a child of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and her own career as an environmental engineer. She also ...

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941. Bundesarchiv Michael Neufeld, who chairs the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, recently spoke with ...

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 after ...

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 Moon.

Werner von Braun's doctoral thesis goes under the hammer in Manhattan.<BR><BR>The Nazis classified his 1934 thesis (he passed, duh) as a critical military secret. After the Allies bagged him post-WWII ...