Von Braun, known as the father of the Saturn family of rockets, served as the Marshall Center’s first director. Sumrall was part of the von Braun team from 1962 to 1976.

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 ...

NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...

The 2006 edition was titled "Project Mars: A Technical Tale." Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk, claims von Braun's writing inspired the naming of his son.