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.

When Daniel Radcliffe performed an a cappella version on The Graham Norton Show – prefacing it by introducing Lehrer, ...

Today, Wernher von Braun is remembered as a rocket engineer who spent his career singlemindedly focused on enabling human spaceflight, first for Nazi Germany and then for the U.S. But everyone has ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. As a youth he became enamored with the ...

The V-2 program was headed by Wernher von Braun. The German engineer and 126 of his principal engineers were captured by U.S. forces on May 2, 1945.

Retired Army Materiel Command Historian Michael Baker talks about Wernher von Braun and his team. He recounts the shock of the Sputnik launch, Toftoy “on his hands and knees begging” for ...

Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who played a pivotal role in the American space program, delivered a speech at Ball State University in 1968, sparking controversy due to his past.

This clip from the DVD History of Spaceflight outlines Wernher von Braun’s vision for the colonization of space. Be sure to check out footage of von Braun from the rarely seen film Challenge of ...

The tweets are brutal in their cluelessness: On Tuesday, WTOP credited an Alexandria man crucial to the Apollo 11 launch as a “brilliant German-American rocket engineer.” Then, a correction: “We have ...

Gus Schuettler ©Stars and StripesStuttgart, West Germany, September, 1959: Contrails in the sky provide a fitting background as Dr. Wernher von Braun -- the one-time Nazi rocket ...

Wernher von Braun speech to the Alabama Legislature Published: May. 04, 2008, 6:52 a.m. By Shelly Haskins | shaskins@al.com Download file Download file ...

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.