No one sent up Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun better than satirist Tom Lehrer Von Braun played key role in US moon landings, but now is mostly remembered for being mocked in a song Expand ...

In the beginning, there was the name. A prophet guided Errol Musk to bestow it on his eldest son, or so he claimed. The seer was Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and an inspiration for Stanley ...

One of my favourites was his song, Wernher von Braun, which reminded us that the celebrated German scientist, who became a hero of the US space programme, started his career designing flying bombs ...

Even Wernher von Braun’s fictional doppelgänger, Dr. Strangelove, might have winced at such breezy talk of thermonuclear explosions.

For the 29th Chaos Communication Congress, the CCC used a verse from Lehrer's song about Wernher von Braun as the congress motto: “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

Becker continues, referencing a video promoting Blue Origin, that “Bezos is either unaware or unconcerned with Wernher von Braun’s history.

After the war, Wernher von Braun became one of the U.S. Army’s top guided-missile experts, his Nazi past scrubbed from his record.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1942, at the Luftwaffe testing site in Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun, the center’s chief of technology, took his position atop the facility’s assembly building.

critics notebook Tom Lehrer’s influence on political satire is still playing out today ...

A musical satirist with an extensive repertoire of lived experience passed away on Saturday. One quirky accomplishment was the invention of Jell-O shots.