Born Maria von Quistorp in Berlin in 1928, she married Wernher von Braun in 1947 in Landshut, Germany, under U.S. military ...

Wernher von Braun's archive of signed technical drawings, schematics, orbital diagrams, and mathematical calculations related to his efforts to sell an ambitious space program to the American ...

Before he became one of the masterminds of the early spaceflight program in first Nazi Germany then the U.S., Wernher von Braun was a university student who experimented on mice with a friend.

Wernher von Braun's book — I think it was his, or it could have been Oberth's book — spoke about how the head of the Mars colony would be called "the Elon." Now, I remember that, but I never ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday applauded the contribution of German scientists including Wernher von Braun in America’s space race against China. “Indeed. Until they were applied to the US ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) Numerous buildings in Huntsville are named after Dr. Wernher Von Braun. But how do you pronounce Braun? During the time he was in Huntsville, Dr. Braun told everyone tha… ...

Wernher von Braun was head of the V-2 rocket development team. The rocket was used in the twilight hours of World War II. The rocket wizard was quoted in a 1952 Press clipping that if Germany ...

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Wernher von Braun poses at his desk, which is adorned with rocket models and stands in front of a poster of a lunar lander.

Wernher von Braun, father of the U.S. space program, usually took his family to Lake Guntersville, about an hour’s drive away. “He loved water,” Margrit said in the MSFC interview, “so we ...

The observatory got its first telescope after Dr. Wernher von Braun and six other founding members of the society donated $100 each. The facility on Monte Sano recently underwent a $70,000 facelift.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria.