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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among them is Wernher von Braun ... And in 1960, von Braun became the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, as well as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle that later ...

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 ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday applauded the contribution of German scientists including Wernher von Braun in America ... He was also key to developing the Saturn V launch vehicle which ...