Explores the development of the V-2 rocket. A sobering testimony to the consequences of corrupted genius.

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into

The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking hi

This is the biography of the German man who created the V-2 rocket and came to the United States to develop missiles.

Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher v