But had the pages of history read an even slightly different vernacular, is it possible humanity could have put boots on the ground on the Red Planet in the era of the C3 Corvette and the Nissan 280ZX ...

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 ...

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 – ...

In Huntsville, von Braun remains NASA’s real hero. Two years ago, at the Space and Rocket Center here, the city held a huge 100th birthday celebration in his memory that featured his daughters, an ...

May 2 (UPI) --The NASA team behind the James Webb Space Telescope has been awarded the Wernher von Braun Memorial Award by the National Space Society. The award is given every two years and was first ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA today imploded and dropped to the ground its empty, 10-story former Huntsville headquarters building where Wernher von Braun’s rocket team designed and managed the construction of the Saturn V ...

Well before rockets carried satellites and then humans into space, before NASA was created, even before large computer mainframes were assembled to process all the information needed to make space ...

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 NASA engineer who helped launch the first astronauts to the moon, died Thursday (Dec. 27) at the age of 79 following a brief illness. Von Puttkamer joined NASA in 1962 when ...