This weekend, Isaacman received the National Space Society’s Wernher von Braun Award for the privately funded Polaris Dawn mission that he led in September 2024.

In 1945, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. approved the resettlement of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the United States.

NASA must exert pressure on the university to rename the von Braun center, and, as a primary participant in the von Braun symposium, stop attending unless it is renamed.

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.

In Berlin in 1930, Mr. Ley introduced a liquid-fuel rocket to a group of aeronautical engineers. Wernher von Braun, left, with Willy Ley.

After von Braun’s visit was announced, some Ball State faculty openly opposed his invitation. Rumors began circulating of a planned protest.

Albert Einstein (scientist), Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright (secretaries of State), Gloria Estefan (musician), Wernher von Braun (rocket scientist), Hedy Lamarr (inventor-actress), Andrew ...

The rocket technology originated from the V-2 missile developed for the Nazis, but after the war, the U.S. granted von Braun amnesty as part of Operation Paperclip.

However, his time with NASA goes way back to the beginning when in 1960 Huntsville became the Rocket City when Wernher von Braun led the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center.