<p>In the beginning, there was the name. A prophet guided Errol Musk to bestow it on his eldest son, or so he claimed. The seer was Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and an inspiration for ...

For the 29th Chaos Communication Congress, the CCC used a verse from Lehrer's song about Wernher von Braun as the congress motto: “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

In the beginning, there was the name. A prophet guided Errol Musk to bestow it on his eldest son, or so he claimed. The seer was Wernher von Braun, a German engineer and an inspiration for Stanley ...

On the afternoon of October 3, 1942, at the Luftwaffe testing site in Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun, the center’s chief of technology, took his position atop the facility’s assembly building.

On the afternoon of October 3, 1942, at the Luftwaffe testing site in Peenemünde, Wernher von Braun, the center’s chief of technology, took his position atop the facility’s assembly building.

Tom Lehrer, who has died aged 97, wrote and performed such subversive ditties as Poisoning Pigeons in the Park and The Masochism Tango, and was a sensation during the satire boom of the 1950s.

critics notebook Tom Lehrer’s influence on political satire is still playing out today ...

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer died Saturday. He was 97. Lehrer’s comedy paved the way for Weird Al, who paid tribute on Sunday when news of his death broke.

During the Space Race he also took the time to lambast Werhner von Braun, the Nazi rocket scientist brought over by the military in Operation Paperclip and a major leader at NASA.

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 ...

Confederate prisoners were held at the site. Newcomers to Huntsville during its initial boomtown status in the 1950s, including Wernher von Braun, first arrived at the depot as well.