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Former NASA administrator nominee Jared Isaacman says he is interested in pursuing some of the goals he had for the agency ...
Wernher von Braun —centennial of his birth is March 23 — came to rest locally. Wernher von Braun's grave in Ivy Hill Cemetery. Thursday, March 22, 2012 ...
On June 20, 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ...
During World War II, units of Ranger soldiers faced battles on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. The rangers will be ...
The highly controversial Operation Paperclip saw the U.S. Government utilize disgraced Nazi scientists to get ahead of ...
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.
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.
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 rocket center said that Maria von ...
Fred Schneikert, a private first class in the US Army, accepted the surrender of a group of German rocket scientists at the close of World War II.
Wernher von Braun was head of the V-2 rocket development team. The rocket was used in the twilight hours of World War II. The rocket wizard was quoted in a 1952 Press clipping that if Germany ...