Suspecting that von Braun was a communist sympathizer, and that he planned to escape to England with the plans for the V-2 , Heinreich Himmler, chief of the German police, and one of Hitler's most ...

Dr. Wernher von Braun served as Marshall Space Flight Center's first director from July 1, 1960 until January 27, 1970, when he was appointed NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Plarning.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Wernher von Braun exhibit will travel to Europe this summer, though the center will keep a permanent, though smaller, version of the exhibit ...

In 1960, von Braun became the first director of NASA's new Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, but began his career in the German army as one of the Nazi scientists.

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death. By Michael J. Neufeld Several months ...

In 1945, sensing defeat in World War II, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Allied forces and arrived in the U.S. By 1950, von Braun was moved to Huntsville where he would continue to ...

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 ...

Wernher von Braun quotes "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." — Chicago Sun Times, July 10, 1958 "There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space ...

Wernher von Braun was a German engineer who came to the United States at the end of World War II after working for the German war effort designing the V-2 combat rocket.