The ferry rocket took three main forms. The first, which von Braun designed in 1948 while interned by the U.S. Army with other Operation: Paperclip Germans in the New Mexico desert, was relatively ...

V-2 rocket launchpad in Germany, 1939. Wernher von Braun, the second of three children ... which had been purpose-built to ferry oversize cargo. Soon, the other stages began arriving by boat ...

Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War II.

A collection of some of the most important seminal documents of the Space Age are open for bids as rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun's "Man ... serviced by a fleet of ferry rockets with reusable ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Wernher von Braun exhibit will travel to Europe this summer, though the center will keep a permanent, though smaller, version of the exhibit ...

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.

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. She was 96.

where they formed the vanguard of an American space program that built the Saturn V rocket, which sent nine crews toward the moon. In addition to Columbus, von Braun liked to invoke the Wright ...

Magnus von Braun obeyed the order. He was the brother of Wernher, the German inventor of V-2 rockets. This encounter would begin the surrender of the famed rocket man Wernher von Braun ...