HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF)- One of the sole survivors of the original German rocket team who helped get America into space and on to the moon will be honored Thursday night. 96-year-old Dr. George von ...

Asta von Tiesenhausen, the widow of leading Wernher von Braun rocket team member the late Georg von Tiesenhausen, died Aug. 1 after 96 “fascinating and often turbulent years,” her obituary says.

German Scientist Admits He Built ... that the Egyptians had invited him to Cairo in the spring of 1960 “to make a meteorological-sounding rocket.” In October 1961, the West German Government ...

A German start-up built a rocket with the hope of launching satellites into orbit from Europe in the future. But the test flight, the first of its kind from continental Europe, failed.

The V-2 was the brainchild of Dr. Wernher von Braun, a German scientist and member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS. His work established many rocket technology advancements that ultimately ...

Engrossing account of the life of German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. Jurgens plays Wernher von Braun, the German scientist who invented the V-2 rocket during WW II. The apolitical ...

Baden-Wurtemburg police today ordered a 24-hour bodyguard for Dr. Hans Kleinwaechter, one of the rocket experts who worked with the West German scientist, Dr. Eugen Saenger, in developing a medium ...