Over 100 German scientists on the Von Braun Rocket Team gather at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1946, including Wernher von Braun, Ludwig Roth, and Arthur Rudolph. Many pictured worked to develop the V-2 ...

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And the renaming of the Debus conference facility means that only one other Nazi scientist continues to be actively honored on U.S. soil: Wernher von Braun, the physics genius behind the V-2.

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 ...

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.

The Saturn V rocket that carried our astronauts was the brainchild of former Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun. The rocket technology originated from the V-2 missile developed for the Nazis ...

(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 ...

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. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von ...

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.