Von Braun Center (named for Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who catapulted Huntsville into space exploration) is the undisputed hub for indoor entertainment in the Rocket City.

He recruited a young Wernher von Braun — the rocket and aerospace pioneer — to join the Society, beginning the first of many collaborations between the two men.

The von Braun rocket team is congratulated by Nazi brass in 1942. Doctor Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 16 ...

Despite the backlash, Wernher von Braun gave his presentation on March 21, 1968, without incident. He was introduced to a packed house at Emens by biology professor Robert Cooper, then head of ...

Dr. Lucas joined von Braun’s storied team of engineers at the U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal; that team became the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960, shortly after the creation of NASA.

Shirtsleeved, tousled, and bright-eyed with the dream that gave Germany its V-2 and the U.S. its first orbiting satellite, bull-shouldered Wernher von Braun paced the yellow-walled office in ...

More than 6,200 people work at the flight center alone, with about 2,300 of them classified as federal civil employees of NASA. There are lingering memories of past layoffs: more than 1,000 jobs ...

Wernher von Braun's book — I think it was his, or it could have been Oberth's book — spoke about how the head of the Mars colony would be called "the Elon." Now, I remember that, but I never ...

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 ...

At its head was a governor elected by the general population for five years at a time, whom the Martians called the ‘Elon, ‘” von Braun wrote. Why von Braun chose the name “Elon “ for the leader of ...

The claim is based on a portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who led development of rocket technology for the Nazi party in Germany and later ...