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 ...

the “V” variant won out. What became the Saturn grew out of a U.S. military requirement in the late 1950s for a booster big enough to launch large satellites. Wernher von Braun, who had ...

Von Braun, born in Wirsitz ... There he helped design the Saturn V (in this case, the V stood for the Roman numeral five, not vengeance), the rocket that launched U.S. astronauts toward the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Alabama Governor Kay Ivey presented the 2025 Alabama update at the Von Braun Center Saturn Ballroom Monday. As the legislative session nears its end for 2025 ...

He was also the primary engineer of the Saturn V rocket, which launched the Apollo moon missions and the Skylab space station. Wernher von Braun was also once a Nazi party member and SS officer ...

111 Meter hoch wird Wernher von Brauns Mondrakete »Saturn V« auf Cape Kennedys Startblock 39 in den Himmel ragen. Doch selbst das fünfzigfach verkleinerte Modell sprengt noch herkömmlich ...

Von Braun's genius idea was the Saturn V, the world's most powerful rocket. It stood 111 metres tall, and fully-fuelled, weighed about the same as 400 elephants. And in 1969, it helped land men on ...