Tag: Wernher von Braun

  • Nation & World

    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…

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    Buzz Aldrin on the moon with Neil Armstrong reflected in his visor.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    3 minutes