And, of course, there was a septuagenarian space hero to fly. It wasn't a bad run ... You do the math. The space shuttle may yet turn Von Braun's vision into reality, but the journey has been ...

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 ...

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 ...