Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out a detail regarding the first stage of the Saturn rocket to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Eisenhower was ...

The exhibit at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center ... pictures of von Braun's children as well as models of rockets he and his team designed and built as forerunners to Apollo 11's Saturn V.

Wernher von Braun's crew built Saturn rockets here ... Marshall hosts the Payload Operations Integration Center, a control room that according to NASA has been staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days ...

The event will take place at noon in the Von Braun Center’s Saturn Ballroom. Organized by the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber, the luncheon serves as a key opportunity for state and regional ...

German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), born in 1912 in Wirsitz, Germany, took an early interest in rockets and the possibility of space exploration. As a young man, he joined the ...

One of the greatest rocket scientists of all time would have been 100 years old on Friday, and his legacy is being celebrated in his adopted home town of Huntsville, Ala. Wernher von Braun was a ...

Von Braun's headquarters in Huntsville, Ala. subsequently became the Marshall Space Flight Center, the nerve center for the subsequent development of the massive Saturn launch vehicles that ...

Von Braun had been the technical director of that project and visited the associated Mittelwerk factory a dozen times. Now the head of the center that managed the gigantic Saturn V Moon rocket ...