"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 ...

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 ...

On June 24, the Kennedy Space Center’s director, Janet Petro, accepted the National Space Club Florida Committee’s Dr. Kurt H. Debus Award; NASA’s webpage celebrating the event referenced ...

During the historic launch of Apollo 11 which put the first men on the moon, rows of men in shirts and ties lined the consoles inside Kennedy Space Center. But one woman stood out – 28-year-old ...

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 ...

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.

On that day half a century ago, ex-SS major von Braun and two fellow German scientists - Kurt Debus and Arthur Rudolph - celebrated with American scientists at Apollo Mission Control Center in ...

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, ...

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 ...

JoAnn Morgan, who worked as an instrumentation controller for the Apollo 11 mission, was the only woman allowed inside the firing room where NASA employees were locked during the historic lift off ...