Editor’s Note: This story has been corrected to reflect U.S.’s space race was with Soviet Russia. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday applauded the contribution of German scientists including Wernher von ...

For years, NASA pumped out materials celebrating Kurt H. Debus, the Kennedy Space Center’s first director. Only one problem: Debus was a Nazi. But after years of omitting or obscuring Debus’ Nazi past ...

The Silbervogel was one of the most extreme concepts of the Amerika Bomber program, a rocket powered suborbital spaceplane designed to strike the United States by skipping through the upper atmosphere ...