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 von Quistorp in ...

Don’t say he’s hypocritical, But rather that he’s apolitical. “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun. Comedian ...

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center announced the passing of Maria von Braun, Wernher von Braun’s widow on Friday. The center said she died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria, Va. She was 96. “Maria ...

The von Braun novel was sitting as a forgotten manuscript in the US Space and Rocket Center Archives when I found it c. 2000. It was effectively unknown to the outside world before 2006.