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- Updated: Feb. 07, 2025, 4:40 p.m.
- Published: Feb. 07, 2025, 4:33 p.m.
Wernher von Braun is carried aloft on the shoulders of Huntsville city officials during the Apollo 11 celebration in Huntsville on July 24, 1969, the day the first people to land on the moon returned to Earth. Huntsville’s Marshall Space Flight Center developed the Saturn launch vehicles under von Braun’s direction.NASA photo
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center announced the passing of Maria von Braun, Wernher von Braun’s widow on Friday.
The center said she died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria, Va. She was 96.
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