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 ...

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The already thinning ranks of Wernher von Braun's German rocket team, which after the war helped put Americans on the moon, has grown even more sparse with the deaths of three scientists. Max Nowak, ...

The last known surviving member of the German engineering team that came to the United States after World War II and designed the rocket that blasted astronauts to the moon has died. Oscar Carl ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria. She was 96. Born Maria ...

SHEBOYGAN — The Soviet Union could have been the first to step foot on the moon if Sheboygan's Fred Schneikert wasn't on guard duty to accept the surrender of a group of German scientists in the ...

Somers Point, N.J. (Oct. 9, 2025) – SPQR Stage Company, the Jersey Shore’s “Original” theater company, will produce “The ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL - Dr. Walter Haeussermann, a key member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's German rocket team and pioneer of the American space program, died Wednesday in Huntsville. Haeussermann, 96, died at ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Graveside services will be Saturday in Huntsville for Hans Joachim Fichtner, an original member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's rocket team that built the Saturn V moon rocket.

Ernst Stuhlinger, one of the last surviving German rocket scientists who came to America after World War II and formed the engineering foundation of the nation's space program, has died. He was 94.

One of the greatest rocket scientists of all time would have been 100 years old on Friday (March 23), and his legacy is being celebrated in his adopted home town of Huntsville, Ala. Wernher von Braun ...

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 ...