Former astronaut Story Musgrave is a veteran of six space shuttle flights on five different ... Musgrave: I’ve got lots of people—[Wernher] von Braun was one of them. He’s maybe my ultimate ...

In its heyday, the Space Shuttle could carry 27,500 kg (60,600 lb) to LEO, at a cost of approximately $500 million per launch. Today, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy can put 63,800 kg (140,700 lb ...

Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan.

An ambitious post-Apollo program was imagined — one that would have seen the Saturn V fly well beyond the ... but the ambitions of the space program. Von Braun and other German scientists ...