How women played a crucial role in halting Hitler’s terrorizing V2 rockets, the weapons that reshaped modern warfare.

Discover how Allied forces and brilliant women analysts uncovered and delayed Hitler’s V2 rocket program, saving countless ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

After WWII, the U.S. recruited 1,600 Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip—fueling its space race and weapons tech, but ...

Project Horizon was shuttered due to cost overruns. Had it succeeded, it would have militarized the lunar surface as well as ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

You can tour the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the world’s largest museum of space memorabilia, and see the Saturn V rocket under the roof at the Davidson Center. Burritt on the Mountain showcases the ...