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From Nazis to NASA The Life of Wernher Von Braun

Biography / Memoir
By: Bob Ward
384 pages, no illustrations
From Nazis to NASA
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  • From Nazis to NASA ISBN: 9780750943031 Hardback Feb 2006 Out of stock with supplier: order now to get this when available
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Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, is a hero to some and villain to others. After seven years of investigation, veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward has rejected the extremes and presents a revealing, even-handed portrait of the one-time Nazi Party member who brought the United States into the Space Age. From the young German aristocrat's leadership role in the development of the world's first ballistic missile - the infamous V-2 rocket used against the Allies during the invasion of Europe - to his successes in the United States after the war, a picture of von Braun emerges as a brilliant scientist with limitless curiosity and a drive to achieve his goals at almost any price. Ward sheds new light on von Braun's extraordinary contributions to launching the first US satellite and winning the 'Moon race' with the Saturn V super-booster that powered Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins, and their successors to the lunar surface. A gregarious night owl, von Braun also played the piano and cello, mastered scuba diving, flew an array of aircraft, spoke several languages, became a serious amateur astronomer, and was an avid reader and conversationalist, as much at ease discussing Nietzsche as nuclear fission.

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BOB WARD, former editor of The Huntsville Times, has written extensively about space since 1957. He covered the Wernher von Braun rocket team for years as a reporter and as a correspondent to technical and trade periodicals in New York. This is his fifth book on space subjects. He and his wife and family live in Huntsville, Alabama - 'Rocket City, USA'.

Biography / Memoir
By: Bob Ward
384 pages, no illustrations
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