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: 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

Wernher Von Braun, Revised Edition
Wernher Von Braun, Revised Edition

Author: Ray Spangenburg

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1438104138

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Wernher von Braun, Revised Edition examines the life and career of the famed rocket scientist who supervised the development of the powerful rockets used by Apollo astronauts to reach the moon. Controversy surrounds von Braun's work in Germany duri

Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Von Braun

Author: Ray Spangenburg

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780816061792

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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.

Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Von Braun

Author: Dennis Piszkiewicz

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1998-11-30

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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

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.

History of Rocketry & Space Travel
History of Rocketry & Space Travel

Author: Wernher Von Braun

Publisher:

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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It reviews the work of three great pioneers of the early part of the twentieth century - America's Goddard, Germany's Oberth, and Russia's Tsiolkovsky - as well as the accomplishments of Esnault-Pelterie in France, Isaac Lubbock's work on liquid propellants in Great Britain, and the development of the Russian "Katyusha". It details the experiments of von Braun and Walter R Dornberger in German before World War II, and gives a full account of the work of their development team on the V-2 rocket at the Peenemunde Center. The dramatic story of the German scientists' surrender to American forces in 1945, as well as their eventual accomplishments at the Army's Redstone Arsenal and subsequently NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is also told at first hand.