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Wernher Von Braun : the man who sold the moon

Author: Dennis Piszkiewicz
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
This is the biography of the German man who created the V-2 rocket and came to the United States to develop missiles.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Wernher Von Braun; Wernher Von Braun
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dennis Piszkiewicz
ISBN: 0275962172 9780275962173
OCLC Number: 38495243
Description: x, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The immigrant --
The authorized biography --
The cover-up --
The reborn rocketeer --
Redstone --
Selling space: the Collier's articles --
Disneyland --
The first race for space --
The Soviet chief designer and Sputnik --
Explorer I --
Celebrity --
The challenge of the Moon --
The Cuban Missile Crisis --
The Moonship --
Blunders and disasters --
Men on the Moon --
Shuttle, space station, and the decline of NASA --
Exile in America: von Braun's last years
Responsibility: Dennis Piszkiewicz.

Abstract:

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

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