Dr. Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from developing Nazi weapons to helping get NASA off the ground for the U.S., wrote a novel in the years after World War II speculating ...

Today, Wernher von Braun is remembered as a rocket engineer who spent his career singlemindedly focused on enabling human spaceflight, first for Nazi Germany and then for the U.S.

M.G. Lord's latest book is "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science." At the height of the space race, German-born rocket engineer Wernher von Braun -- a model for the title character of ...