NASA quietly renamed a building that once honored Nazi scientist Kurt H. Debus — only 80 years after World War II.

After all that, it was no surprise that Major Gagarin’s authorized biography read as if it ... Rocket Expert Wernher von Braun realized the possibility of producing satellites and saw plainly ...

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 state commission that runs the U.S. Space and Rocket Center has an updated name to match the times. Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill Monday at the space center that renames the Alabama Space ...

Doctor Wernher von Braun explains the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 16, 1963. The US military scientists working alongside one crew at ...

He has received many awards, including the first Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History in 2015 at the AAS Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium. You can find out Leonard's ...

It’s past time to remove Nazi collaborators’ names from U.S. buildings and scholarships.

the rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and the astronaut Neil Armstrong have said that Verne's writings inspired them. But now Verne enthusiasts are pushing for a reconsideration of the writer as ...

This occurred as part of Operation Paperclip - a secret US program initiated in 1945 to relocate German scientists, engineers, and technicians to the US "Wernher von Braun, who joined the NSDAP in ...