The claim is based on a portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who led development of rocket technology for the Nazi party in Germany and later ...

The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun published "The Mars Project." The book laid out a practical plan for ...

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 ...

Learn about the pivotal role played by Wernher von Braun in saving the American space program and ushering in the Space Age.

A book called "Mars Project" originated as a technical appendix to a science fiction novel, both of which were written by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun. The technical appendix was ...

A group of German scientists led by Wernher von Braun realized the war was ending. The scientists decided it would be better to be captured by Americans than the Soviets, according to an article ...

At least according to the man himself, The brightest mind behind the American Apollo program, Wernher Von Braun, he had plans after the lunar missions to push existing space-fairing technology of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria. She was 96.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96. The rocket center said that Maria von ...

Transcript of a speech given by Wernher von Braun to the Alabama Legislature. This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Von Braun, then the director of Marshall Space Flight Center ...