Monday marked 55 years since the opening of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. A family that had a big part in its opening was ...

As college basketball season comes to a close, Jacksonville State and Liberty play for a Conference USA title and a trip to ...

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.

Atop another rise there’s a rickety looking tower where, as NASA desperately sought to keep pace with the Russians, von Braun tested a modified missile that carried the first American into space.

Von Braun was by this time recognized as the nation ... In addition, Southern California is home to aerospace powerhouse Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, designer of many of ...

Widow of Wernher von Braun, Who Led the Design of the Saturn V Moon Rocket, Was a Valued Member of the Space Community Maria von Braun’s dedication to space education and advocacy helped to ...

When U.S. astronauts finally reach the surface of the moon, they will land in an ungainly-looking little craft that is officially named the Lunar Module (LM) but is becoming known as “the Spider.” ...

In the words of NASA, the greatest rocket scientist in history. We give you… Wernher von Braun. Let me out! Von Braun was born in Germany in 1912. With me, it started with the moon. My parents ...