Created by famed Astronautics Engineer and Rocket Physicist Wernher von Braun (name dropped in the movie October Sky like 3,269,728 times), the sphere-happy concept called for the spacecraft to be ...

In 1960, Columbia Pictures released a movie about NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun called I Aim at the Stars. Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London.

A collection of some of the most important seminal documents of the Space Age are open for bids as rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun's "Man Will Conquer Space Soon" archive goes on the block.

The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun published "The Mars Project." The book laid out a practical plan for ...

Well-known as the leader of the American rocket team, which sought the launch astronauts into space, Wernher von Braun initially designed rockets for his native country of Germany during World War II.

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941. Bundesarchiv Michael Neufeld, who chairs the Space History Division at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, recently spoke ...

In the 1930s, Wernher Von Braun’s rocket work was supported by the Nazi regime. At the end of WWII, the United States government enlisted Von Braun’s expertise and his rocket work became ...