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.

That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun." In 1976, von Braun was considered for a Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Ford administration.

There is no secret, no mystery about why the University of Alabama in Huntsville exists today as a top research institution. The day was June 20, 1961, when Wernher von Braun addressed a joint ...

Of course, the moon landings did take place not long after von Braun visited Muncie. In December 1968, Apollo 8 became the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon. Eight months later, Apollo 11 ...

Asta von Tiesenhausen, the widow of leading Wernher von Braun rocket team member the late Georg von Tiesenhausen, died Aug. 1 after 96 “fascinating and often turbulent years,” her obituary says.

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center announced the passing of Maria von Braun, Wernher von Braun’s widow on Friday. The center said she died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria, Va. She was 96. “Maria ...

Wernher Von Braun would have been 100 years old the 23rd of this month. To Celebrate the centennial of the man who led America to the moon, and made Huntsville the Rocket City there will be a ...

The World War II secretary to German rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun has died in Alabama, where she spent much of her postwar life. Dorette “Dorothea” Hertha Kersten Schlidt died Monday in ...

More: Here's the full list of what was in the 1969 Montgomery time capsule Von Braun, was a rocket scientist who spearheaded Nazi Germany's rocket development program during World War II.

Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 Topic Aeronautics Provenance Mary M. Biddle, Gift, 2011, NASM.2011.0019. Creator Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977 Summary Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun (1912--1977) ...

WWII secretary to Wernher von Braun dies in Alabama . May 13, 2021 at 7:32 am Updated May 13, 2021 at 7:33 am . By . The Associated Press. The Associated Press.