He was hired at Redstone Arsenal, an Army base in Huntsville, where he worked on missile research and development under von Braun and was ... aboard the Challenger space shuttle, died Feb. 10 ...

Von Braun was by this time recognized as the nation ... including all of the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, and SpaceX Crew Dragon lift-offs. Florida is what we all think of when ...

Marshall Space Flight Center also came to control three of the primary elements of the space shuttle: the main engines ... under the direction of Wernher von Braun. Earlier in his NASA career ...

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. Born Maria von Quistorp in ...

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 ...

Huntsville has many claims to fame, one of which is its history with NASA and space exploration ... AL Take in a Show at the Von Braun Center No matter what kind of entertainment you're looking for, ...

Von Braun’s flying delivery truck later morphed into the Space Shuttle, which fell crushingly short of “boldly going where no man has gone before.” Except for a brief moment in 1979 when ...

Von Braun and other German scientists underneath ... NASA had to get creative during the Space Shuttle program when it came to bringing the reusable shuttle into a vertical launch position − ...

It "holds the potential to revolutionize space exploration," NASA said in ... One of the first to seriously tackle the problem was Wernher von Braun. During World War II, von Braun was a member ...

The Space Race truly began to take flight when ... Oct. 3, 1942: German rocket scientists Wernher von Braun successfully launches the first ballistic missile, the V-2 rocket, which he played ...