Correspondence, fan mail, speeches and writings, public relations materials, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed materials, chiefly 1950-1970. The papers relate to Von Braun's career in rocketry and aerospace engineering from his early work on the V-2 in Germany to his work for the Department of Defense, the Redstone Arsenal, and the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Included are materials relating to guided missiles, rocketry, and space exploration in general as well as papers relating to the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs, and material reflecting his associations with the American Rocket Society, the Gesellshchaft fur Weltraumsforschung, and Lockheed, General Dynamics, Sperry-Rand, IBM, General Motors, and other corporations involved in aerospace work. Correspondents include Aristad von Grosse, Robert Truax, Frederick C. Durant III, Armitage Watkins, Igor Sikorsky, Fred L. Whipple, Wilbur M. Brucker, J. B. Medaris, Willy Ley, Cornelius Ryan, Heinz Herman Kolle, Heinz Gartmann, G. Loeser, Jupps Gerhards, Otto Wolfgang Bechtle, Ernst Stuhlinger, and John Sparkman.