When Daniel Radcliffe performed an a cappella version on The Graham Norton Show – prefacing it by introducing Lehrer, ...

Tom Lehrer, the acclaimed musical satirist, has been in the limelight recently due to his passing on July 26, 2025, at the ...

Wernher von Braun was a German engineer who came to the United States at the end of World War II after working for the German war effort designing the V-2 combat rocket. Despite his past and ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) was one of the most important rocket developers and champions of space exploration in the twentieth century. As a youth he became enamored with the ...

(For more about von Braun's Nazi past, click here. After the war, von Braun, who orchestrated the surrender of 500 of his rocket scientists to Allied forces, went to work for the U.S. Army.

Wernher von Braun was enticed from Huntsville to Washington, D.C., where he was cut off from his team and turned into a walking ghost, virtually ignored as he made his way along the hallways of ...

An exhibit representing Wernher von Braun’s NASA office is seen at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration on July 16, 2019, at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

"Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Man" premiered at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center on Monday. Here he is in his office on May 1, 1964. Behind von Braun stand scale models of the Saturn family of moon ...

Created by famed Astronautics Engineer and Rocket Physicist Wernher von Braun (name dropped in the movie October Sky like 3,269,728 times), the sphere-happy concept called for the spacecraft to be ...

In this photo taken Sept. 2, 2008, engineer Oscar Carl Holderer, one of Wernher von Braun’s original “Operation Paperclip” team members, holds some technical drawings in his home shop behind ...