Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

The tranquility at Fort Hunt Park today offers no hint at the clandestine goings-on there during World War II. Today’s ...

Today’s anniversary of the liftoff of Apollo 11 back on July 16, 1969, seems like an appropriate occasion to ponder the ...

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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.

Scholar Larry Bounds takes on the persona of German American aerospace engineer and space architect Wernher von Braun in a living history performance on Thursday, July 17 at 8:00 p.m. at the Guy C.

First opened as a chemical munitions manufacturing and storage plant during World War II, the Redstone Arsenal later became the primary site for Project Paperclip, a collaboration between the ...

Professionally, Bill worked under rocket scientist Werner von Braun on missile and rocket research for Chrysler contributing to NASA's Apollo program.Recruited by McDonnell Douglas, Bill helped ...

Luminaries like Wernher von Braun, Bear Bryant and Gen. John Zierdt, “envisioned a place that would preserve the artifacts from our country’s successes [in space], they envisioned a place that ...

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.

Their leader was Wernher von Braun, the Nazi scientist crucial to the development of the V-2 rocket — which held a payload of 2,000 pounds and flew five times beyond the speed of sound.