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

Von Braun at his desk at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1960, years after writing Project Mars. NASA Who else but Wernher von Braun would include a 62-page scientific appendix full of ...

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the Stars. Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London.

The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun published "The Mars Project." The book laid out a practical plan for ...

In the words of NASA, the greatest rocket scientist in history. We give you… Wernher von Braun. Let me out! Von Braun was born in Germany in 1912. With me, it started with the moon. My parents ...