Tag: Wernher von Braun

  • Campus & Community

    Exhibit charts history of Apollo 11 moon mission

    A new Houghton Library exhibit connects early celestial calculations to the Apollo 11 mission that put two American astronauts on the lunar surface 50 years ago. “Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Apollo 11 at Fifty” offers gems from Harvard’s collection of rare books and manuscripts as well as NASA items that were aboard the spaceship in…

    Buzz Aldrin on the moon with Neil Armstrong reflected in his visor.
  • Arts & Culture

    From V-2 rocket to moon landing

    A new book explores the connections among World War II scientists, the V-2 missile, and the U.S. race to the moon, led by German émigré Wernher von Braun.