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Where is von Braun's Telescope? The parting gift of Wernher von Braun's staff on leaving Huntsville, Ala. in 1970 was an 8-inch Celestron telescope with camera attachment. Aerial photographs taken ...
Over 100 German scientists on the Von Braun Rocket Team gather at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1946, including Wernher von Braun, Ludwig Roth, and Arthur Rudolph. Many pictured worked to develop the V-2 ...
And the renaming of the Debus conference facility means that only one other Nazi scientist continues to be actively honored on U.S. soil: Wernher von Braun, the physics genius behind the V-2.
American novelists have often imagined presidents who seize power and defy the courts. Their lessons are sobering ...
The state commission that runs the U.S. Space and Rocket Center has an updated name to match the times. Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill Monday at the space center that renames the Alabama Space ...
That team included Dr. Wernher von Braun, a Nazi rocket scientist who helped develop missiles for Germany during World War II. Soon the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formed ...
This concept, dating back to the early 20th century and later refined by Wernher von Braun, uses centrifugal force to generate artificial gravity. OAC plans to create gravity levels comparable to ...
a collaboration between the Americans and “the Huntsville Germans,” a group of former Nazi scientists and engineers that included Wernher von Braun. It would be von Braun who would help develop ...
They were not valuable to the U.S. government, as the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun — and others — were. Nor were they educated or important enough to be rehabilitated into the West ...
The only hope now was a man many did not want to succeed, the former Nazi SS officer, Wernher von Braun, who headed the Nazi rocket development program. Having no other viable choice, von Braun was ...