More than 40 years in the making, the Saturn V ... next great power struggle, a Cold War already stirring in its infancy. Von Braun examines a jet engine, November 1946. At six foot one, Wernher ...

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 ...

Wernher Von Braun (right) meet at the MFSC to witness the first test firing of a Saturn V Booster, Image credit ... call the commander of the Army base next door and tell him the Secretary ...

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 ...

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Director Dr. Wernher von Braun at ... Space Flight Center. Under von Braun's leadership, Marshall developed the Saturn V launch vehicle which took Apollo ...

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the ... There he helped design the Saturn V (in this case, the V stood for the Roman ...

Some of the most recognizable and iconic conceptual spacecraft designs ever proposed are those of Wernher von Braun's space popularization ... as the three-stage Saturn V rocket configured for ...

In 1950, they relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, where Wernher von Braun led the team that developed the Saturn V rocket that would later send Americans to the moon. During Huntsville's ...

A group of German scientists led by Wernher ... Von Braun became an advocate for space exploration during the 1950s. He eventually became part of NASA, where he became the chief architect of the ...