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He was a Nazi hunter — and was killed in the Lockerbie bombing. What does it mean to seek justice for his death?
After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.
Wernher von Braun on May 3, 1945, the day after his surrender to Allied forces. He had broken his arm in an auto accident two months before and his bones had not properly mended.
Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer, having served the Third Reich as an aerospace engineer. He designed the deadly V-2 rocket, the world’s first long-range ...
The National Children’s Advocacy Center’s 41st International Symposium on Child Abuse is underway at the Von Braun Center this week. People from all 50 states and 16 countries travel to Huntsville ...
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 ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria.
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.
Wernher von Braun wrote (as published in the 2006 edition): The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled "Elon." ...
In 1945, sensing defeat in World War II, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Allied forces and arrived in the U.S. By 1950, von Braun was moved to Huntsville where he would continue to ...
Judy Garland, Wernher von Braun, Supreme Court justices, and just about every politician and his wife who passed through the capital during her decades in residence showed up at Perle’s place.