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 ...

One of the greatest rocket scientists of all time would have been 100 years old on Friday, and his legacy is being celebrated in his adopted home town of Huntsville, Ala. Wernher von Braun was a ...

In the fall of 1954, a 16-year-old Huntsville High student started an astronomy club. ... (where he met Magnus von Braun, Wernher's brother), then in solid propulsion for Thiokol, ...

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. Despite his past and ...

The claim is based on a portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, ... “No matter how often I tell people that I’m a 5000-year-old alien time ...

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely place. Unless you are a boomer or early Gen Xer you may not even have heard about him. And maybe it’s because he ...

Still, Wernher von Braun did not entirely escape posthumous moral critiques—in the U.S. capital's two major newspapers, of all places. A Washington Star editorial explicitly opened with the ...

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941. Bundesarchiv. Michael ... He had 5,000 people working for him when he was 30 years old. I mean he was incredibly talented.

Von Braun’s story in the 1954 issue explained that he didn’t believe he’d see a man on Mars within his lifetime. In fact, von Braun believed that it would likely be 100 years before a human ...

One of the greatest rocket scientists of all time would have been 100 years old on Friday (March 23), and his legacy is being celebrated in his adopted home town of Huntsville, Ala. Wernher von ...

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. Despite his past and ...