Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially ... Juno, Jupiter-C, and Pershing rockets. The Redstone rocket ...

Wernher von Braun was a German engineer who came ... went on to develop the Redstone, Jupiter and Saturn rockets that launched America's space program. Von Braun became the center's first director ...

Wernher von Braun's crew built Saturn rockets here ... clustering elements of the Jupiter and Redstone rockets to make a series of giant multi-engine boosters. The product of that ambition ...

Rocket Pioneers Wernher von Braun ... Redstone called the Jupiter-C. The space race had begun. The most exciting work for the von Braun team was the eight-year Saturn program, Heimburg said.

And Explorer’s victorious streak turned a bright light on the Men of Jupiter. The big three: Wernher von ... At 18 Von Braun was working with crude liquid-fuel rockets, using Berlin’s ...

On May 2, 1945, just a few days before World War II ended and two days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun and ... from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets ...

The last surviving member of Wernher von Braun’s German rocket team has died in Huntsville ending a living history that spanned from creation of the first rocket for war to the NASA Saturn V ...

Wernher von Braun ... At NASA, he developed the Jupiter and Redstone rockets, the latter used in the Mercury program. He was also the primary engineer of the Saturn V rocket, which launched ...

Magnus von Braun obeyed the order. He was the brother of Wernher, the German inventor of V-2 rockets. This encounter ... became the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the super ...

Konrad Dannenberg, a German rocket scientist who was part of the Wernher von Braun team that ... America's key space rockets — the Redstone, Jupiter and Saturn V, which carried American ...

v=mMZf9pZZM_A// Before serving his key role in developing the Saturn V rocket that launched astronauts to the Moon, Wernher von Braun along ... test versions of those rockets were painted with ...