Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi scientist who played a pivotal role in the American space program, delivered a speech at Ball State University in 1968, sparking controversy due to his past. Despite ...

WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from ...

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 after ...

Jesco von Puttkamer, a protege of Wernher von Braun whose NASA career ranged from the Apollo manned lunar landing project to the International Space Station, died Dec. 27, of a flu-like illness at ...

Phil Sumrall was a junior engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., in the 1960s when he helped build the Saturn V rocket – the most powerful launch vehicle ever developed – ...

Wernher von Braun is remembered as the man who took humanity to the Moon. But before Apollo 11, he built rockets for Adolf Hitler. Von Braun was the chief architect of the V-2 missile — the world’s ...