Von Braun
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2017-04-12
Type: BOOK
Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun.
The Mars Project
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1953
Type: BOOK
When President Bush directed NASA in 1989 to prepare plans for an orbiting space station, lunar research bases, and human exploration of Mars, he was largely echoing what von Braun proposed in The Mars Project.
Wernher Von Braun
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Type: BOOK
Wernher Von Braun
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Type: BOOK
Biography of Werner von Braun who developed rockets for the German military in World War II and for the United States military and space programs, written by two men who spent decades working with him.
Dr. Space
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2009-09-01
Type: BOOK
Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the father of modern rocketry.
The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun
Publisher: Apogee Books
Published: 2007
Type: BOOK
This collection of speeches by Dr. Wernher von Braun -- a passionate crusader for worthy causes -- touches on a variety of topics, including education, the cold war, religion, and the space program.
Wernher von Braun: Revolutionary Rocket Engineer
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2019-01-01
Type: BOOK
Meet Wernher von Braun, who developed the booster rocket that won the Space Race for the United States!
From Nazis to NASA
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Limited
Published: 2006
Type: BOOK
Sheds light on Wernher von Braun's 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.
Wernher Von Braun
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Published: 2008
Type: BOOK
Explores the life and achievements of the rocketry pioneer who designed rockets for the Nazi war effort early in his career and later became a leading figure in the American space program.
Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-09-28
Type: BOOK
This illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of “rocket scientist” Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and ...
