Von Braun's estate records are public in ... have studied his rocket [the Saturn V] at some level of detail," he said. Traveling from home in Pennsylvania to visit the Air and Space Museum ...

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...

As the Soviet Army closed in on the German rocket base in Peenemünde, the leader of the V-2 team, Wernher von Braun, decided he’d rather be captured by Americans than by Soviets. He and his ...

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was a German, later American, aerospace engineer and space architect credited with inventing the V-2 rocket for Nazi ...

In 1950, they relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, where Wernher von Braun led the team that developed the Saturn V rocket that would later send Americans to the moon. During Huntsville's ...

A former Nazi party member, von Braun developed the rocket that launched United States’ first space satellite Explorer 1. He was also key to developing the Saturn V launch vehicle which enabled ...

In the aftermath of World War II, as the world grappled with the horrors of the Nazi regime, a secret U.S. intelligence program, codenamed Operation Paperclip, set in motion an extraordinary plan ...

The man behind the Saturn V was no other than the famed German scientist Wernher von Braun. Having worked on the V-2 ballistic rocket during WWII in Germany, the German's experience was valuable ...

Von Braun became the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and was at the center of the development of one rocket in particular: the Saturn V. The Saturn V was built from the ground up ...

Von Braun became an advocate for space exploration during the 1950s. He eventually became part of NASA, where he became the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the super booster that ...

And in 1960, von Braun became the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle that later carried the first men to the moon.