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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wernher von Braun —centennial of his birth is March 23 — came to rest locally. Wernher von Braun's grave in Ivy Hill Cemetery. Thursday, March 22, 2012 ...

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 ...

Wernher von Braun, a former member of the SS who rebranded himself as an all-American hero in the 1960s - SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo Nasa, Nazis and the Space Race (Channel 4) is a strong, if ...

While these two contrasting stories seem worlds apart, they are the experiences of the same person, German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun (1912–1977). But as with many historical figures, notes ...

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 ...