Wernher Von Braun papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20000
Subjects: Rocketry; Project Mercury (U.S.); V-2 rocket; Correspondence; German Aerial operations; Project Gemini (U.S.); Guided missiles; Rockets (Aeronautics); Gesellschaft für Weltraumsforschung; International Business Machines Corporation; George C. Marshall Space Flight Center; General Motors Corporation; United States; Project Apollo (U.S.); United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; World War, 1939-1945; American Rocket Society; Aeronautics; General Dynamics Corporation; Sperry Rand Corporation; United States. Dept. of Defense; Lockheed Aircraft Corporation; Space flight
Description: Correspondence, fan mail, speeches and writings, public relations material, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed material relating to Von Braun's career in rocketry and aerospace engineering from his early work on the V-2 rocket in Germany to his service at the U.S. Dept. of Defense, the Redstone Arsenal, and the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.  Includes material pertaining to guided missiles, rocketry, and space exploration in general; papers relating to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs; and material reflecting Von Braun's associations with the American Rocket Society and Gesellschaft für Weltraumsforschung, and General Dynamics, General Motors, IBM, Lockheed, Sperry-Rand, and other corporations involved in aerospace work.

Correspondents include Otto Wolfgang Bechtle, Wilber Marion Brucker, Frederick C. Durant, Heinz Gartmann, Juppe Gerhards, Aristid von Grosse, Heinz Hermann Kölle, Willy Ley, G. Loeser, John B. Medaris, Cornelius Ryan, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, John Sparkman, Ernst Stublinger, Robert Collins Truax, Armitage Watkins, and Fred Lawrence Whipple.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Gift and deposit, Wernher Von Braun, 1962-1971.

Deposit converted to gift, Maria Von Braun, 1997.

transferred to appropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress.

German-born aerospace engineer; emigrated to the United States in 1945; served as director and administrator of U.S. space programs and projects.

Collection material in English and German.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998011

Material deposited by Wernher Von Braun in 1971 was photocopied and the surrogates filed in the original containers (58-61) of the collection.  The originals were given by Maria Von Braun to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Ala.