Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. ... he is wearing the swastika badge. ... Late in the war he was seen more often in SS uniform, ...

Suspecting that von Braun was a communist sympathizer, and that he planned to escape to England with the plans for the V-2 , Heinreich Himmler, chief of the German police, and one of Hitler's most ...

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely place. Unless you are a boomer or early Gen Xer you may not even have heard about him.

Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer, having served the Third Reich as an aerospace engineer. He designed the deadly V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shirtsleeved, tousled, and bright-eyed with the dream that gave Germany its V-2 and the U.S. its first orbiting satellite, bull-shouldered Wernher von Braun paced the yellow-walled office in ...

Named in honor of Dr. Wernher von Braun, the Von Braun Civic Center was built in 1974. Planning for the facility began in 1965 to include an arena, an exhibit hall, a concert hall, a playhouse and ...

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 ...

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. ... he is wearing the swastika badge. ... Late in the war he was seen more often in SS uniform, ...

Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer, having served the Third Reich as an aerospace engineer. He designed the deadly V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ...