Ettersberg/ Lehesten/ Bleicherode: ... Auch Wernher von Braun und 120 seiner engsten Mitarbeiter aus Peenemünde bekommen Arbeitsverträge, am 18.

Wirsitz (Posen): Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun wird am 23. März 1912 in Wirsitz als Sohn einer wohlhabenden Aristokratenfamilie in der preußischen Provinz geboren. Sein Vater ist der ...

So schnell wie möglich organisierten von Braun und die Amerikaner den Abzug der insgesamt 1000 Peenemünder Mitarbeiter aus Bleicherode, von denen am 22. Juni 1945 rund 120 in einem Sonderzug auf ...

Depending on where you come from in the state of Alabama, you have likely either never heard of Wernher von Braun, or you think he is a modern day Columbus, responsible for guiding the United ...

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 ...

Rocket Pioneers Wernher von Braun, Bernhard Tessmann and Karl Heimburg built early U.S. military rockets at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., home of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command ...

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.

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.

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 ...

If you've lived in Huntsville long, you've heard the legend of what Wernher von Braun and his rocket team brought to a sleepy cotton town. A university. A symphony. A planetarium. The Parkway. A ...

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.