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

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 ...

A rumor circulating online in January 2025 purported that a 1953 book called "Mars Project" by rocket science pioneer Wernher von Braun included a prediction that the leader of Mars would be named ...

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 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 ...