"This building is not a monument," said Kurt Debus, the German rocket scientist who supervised construction of the Florida facilities in 1965. "It is a tool, if you will, capable of accommodating ...

Kurt Debus ran the launch site that would later be renamed the Kennedy Space Center. Rees was Von Braun’s technical director and succeeded him as Marshall chief.

Kurt Debus passed in 1983. Since 1990 the National Space Club of Florida has presented a Kurt Debus Award in recognition of significant Florida contributions to aerospace technology.

One of the people brought over in Operation Paperclip was Kurt Debus, a former V2 rocket scientist. Debus was transferred over to NASA in 1960 and, in just two years, ...

More than 120 German scientists and engineers joined him there, including fellow SS officer Kurt Debus (who became director of Nasa's Launch Operations Center) and Bernhard Tessmann (designer of ...

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 ...

The National Space Club Florida Committee last week announced DiBello is the 27th recipient of the Debus ... by naming him the 2016 recipient of the Dr. Kurt H. Debus Award,” said ...