But this book is not only a personal account ... Dornberger was von Braun’s superior in the German rocket program, and while he often comments on the young engineer’s brilliance, he makes ...

The claim is based on a portion of the 1953 book “Mars Project” by aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, who led development ...

Wernher von Braun and the team at Peenemünde weren’t the only ones in Germany working on advanced rocket vehicles ... space travel possible. In his book, V-2, Walter Dornberger mentions ...

Sharpe in their book The Rocket Team ... and did not introduce innovations,” wrote German-born rocket historian (and von Braun colleague) Willy Ley in 1968. Nearly three decades later, Boris ...

Desperate to learn how rockets were built, Hickam began studying physics and reading about rocket scientist Wernher von Braun ... while teachers slipped him books on calculus and the principles ...

The first serious proposal for a human mission to Mars came in 1953, when German-American rocket scientist Wernher von Braun published "The Mars Project." The book laid out a practical plan for ...

In the words of NASA, the greatest rocket scientist in history. We give you… Wernher von Braun. Let me out! Von Braun was born in Germany in 1912. With me, it started with the moon. My parents ...