The highly controversial Operation Paperclip saw the U.S. Government utilize disgraced Nazi scientists to get ahead of ...

As the right-hand man of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler was perhaps the most feared man in Nazi Germany. Under his command, the monsters of the SS had carried out unspeakable horrors, not least ...

Wernher von Braun hat eine Vision! Schon als Kind möchte er den Weltraum bereisen. Was damals noch ein Traum aus seinen Romanen von Jules Verne und Co ist, wird schon bald Wirklichkeit. Der junge ...

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. He and his ...

Today marks the grand-opening celebration of Von Maur, Fargo’s newest department store. An announcement like that has been rare for decades. In fact, many department stores in our region have ...

Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who played a pivotal role in the American space program, delivered a speech at Ball State University in 1968, sparking controversy due to his past.

(Wood, Stephen / AP) In 1959, science writer Willy Ley sat down with Wernher von Braun to talk about space. Von Braun was by this time recognized as the nation’s top rocket scientist, but he’d ...

Nazidom’s power-grabbers began fighting for control of the weapon Hitler had approved, and in February 1944, Wernher von Braun was jailed by Heinrich Himmler’s black-shirted SS because he ...

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. She was 96.

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center announced the passing of Maria von Braun, Wernher von Braun’s widow on Friday. The center said she died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria, Va. She was 96.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — 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. The rocket center said that Maria von ...