Wernher von Braun: Revolutionary Rocket Engineer
Wernher von Braun: Revolutionary Rocket Engineer

Author: Rachael L. Thomas

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1532159900

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Meet Wernher von Braun, who developed the booster rocket that won the Space Race for the United States! Follow von Braun's story from his early work developing the V-2 ballistic missile to his development of the Saturn V booster rocket that took Apollo 11 to the moon. Infographics, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Von Braun
Von Braun

Author: Michael Neufeld

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-04-12

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0525435913

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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. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.

Von Braun
Von Braun

Author: Michael Neufeld

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-11-11

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0307389375

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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. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.

Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Von Braun

Author: Ray Spangenburg

Publisher:

Published: 1995-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780816029242

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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

The Nazi Rocketeers
The Nazi Rocketeers

Author: Dennis Piszkiewicz

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780811733878

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

Rocket Girl
Rocket Girl

Author: George D. Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1616147393

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Combining personal history with dramatic historical events, this extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist shows how her talent for chemistry proved essential for America's early space program.

Dr. Space
Dr. Space

Author: Robinson J Ward

Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1612514049

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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. As he chronicles Werner von Braun's life, Ward explodes many myths and misconceptions about the controversial genius who was a hero to some, a villain to others. The picture of von Braun that emerges is of a brilliant scientist with limitless curiosity and a drive to achieve his goals at almost any price—from developing the world’s first ballistic missile used against the Allies in World War II to helping launch the first U.S. satellite that hurled Americans into space and the Saturn V super-booster that powered them to the moon. Along the way readers are introduced to the human side of this charismatic visionary who brought the United States into the Space Age.

The Rocket and the Reich
The Rocket and the Reich

Author: Michael J. Neufeld

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2013-09-10

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1588344673

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WINNER OF THE DEXTER PRIZE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY Launched by the Third Reich in late 1944, the first ballistic missile, the V-2, fell on London, Paris, and Antwerp after covering nearly two hundred miles in five minutes. It was a stunning achievement, one that heralded a new age of ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles. Michael J. Neufeld gives the first comprehensive and accurate account of the story behind one of the greatest engineering feats of World War II. At a time when rockets were minor battlefield weapons, Germany ushered in a new form of warfare that would bequeath a long legacy of terror to the Cold War, as well as the means to go into space. Both the US and USSR's rocket programs had their origins in the Nazi state.

The Rocket Team
The Rocket Team

Author: Frederick Ira Ordway

Publisher: Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781894959001

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Travelling to the Moon and the planets beyond has moved from the world of dreamers and Buck Rogers to the factual terrain of the daily papers and television news shows. This book tells the story of the men who did so much to make the impossible a reality. From a small group of amateur rocketeers led by Wernher von Braun, his rocket team grew into one of the most influential technological forces in this or any other century. This book discloses much previously classified information, particularly involving the British intelligence effort to learn about Hitler's heralded V1 and V2 'vengeance weapons'; to delay their going into action and to minimise their effectiveness once they were developed. The US and British documents, as well as information from von Braun himself, his papers, and interviews with the other members of his team, provide new insights into the wartime growth of rocketry. This revised edition includes a DVD with hours of previously unreleased videos of the German Rocket Pioneers, including two lectures by Wernher von Braun.