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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Once that was all done, Von Braun's days were mostly filled with pitching his ideas to people like Walt Disney. Essentially in the hopes that he'd do the 1950s equivalent of going viral, whatever ...

In 1945, von Braun immigrated to America and became an advisor for V-2 testing in White Sands, New Mexico. In 1960 he became director of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, National ...

The 27th Annual Dr. Wernher Von Braun Celebration is taking place on Thursday, October 29, 2015 at the US Space & Rocket Center – Davidson Center. Attire is black tie or the military equi… ...