The direct answer to Hamlin's question is yes, von Braun was an official card-carrying Nazi. He was also a member of the feared SS paramilitary group, and had been seen in images with Adolf Hitler ...

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 ...

The billions it will cost to build the planet’s first luxury hotel in low Earth orbit could be well spent if the developers can prove that private space construction is possible and profitable.

Learn about the pivotal role played by Wernher von Braun in saving the American space program and ushering in the Space Age.

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely place. Unless you are a boomer or early Gen Xer you may not even have heard about him. And maybe it’s because he ...

Von Braun didn’t say anything publicly about a human mission to Mars when he was in Muncie. A few years earlier, Mariner 4 had flown past the Red Planet, capturing and transmitting images that ...

In many respects, the life of Werner von Braun - one of the greatest rocket engineers - looks like the life of a modern Faust of the 20 th century.