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 ...

It will not be easy — but neither was going to the moon. The Saturn V rocket that carried our astronauts was the brainchild of former Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun.

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.

Lucas’ honors included election to the National Academy of Engineering and the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame; the 2009 Wernher von Braun Space Flight Trophy from the National Space Club for ...

Once an agricultural hub known for watercress, cotton and record-breaking butter production, Huntsville began its transformation into an aerospace behemoth as Wernher von Braun, once the leading ...