After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.

In his work at Peenemünde, Debus was an officer in the SS, the Nazi Party’s military wing, involved in constructing Germany’s V-2 rockets. The rockets were built through slave labor, with ...

Wernher von Braun on May 3, 1945, the day after his surrender to Allied forces. He had broken his arm in an auto accident two months before and his bones had not properly mended.

The von Braun rocket team is congratulated by Nazi brass in 1942. Doctor Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 16 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - The Von Braun Center just celebrated its 50th anniversary, and leaders are celebrating with some renovations to the well-loved space. From Broadway shows, to concerts and of course ...

Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who played a pivotal role in the American space program, delivered a speech at Ball State University in 1968, sparking controversy due to his past.

Von Braun, a member of the Nazi Party and the SS, was the lead engineer on the German V2 rocket which decimated London during the blitz. This rocket was constructed using enslaved laborers in ...

A robotic colony on Mars might seem like far-fetched science fiction, but so was the Moonshot. American Exceptionalism will rise again.

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria.

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.

Wernher von Braun's book — I think it was his, or it could have been Oberth's book — spoke about how the head of the Mars colony would be called "the Elon." Now, I remember that, but I never ...