How We Got to the Moon

The Story of the German Space Pioneers

• Author(s): Marsha Freeman,
• Publisher: 21st Century Science Associates
• Pages: 363
• ISBN_10: 0962813419
  ISBN_13: 9780962813412
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology , Juvenile Nonfiction / History / General , Science / General , Science / Space Science / Space Exploration , Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics ,

Description:... Prologue by Konrad Dannenberg -- Hermann Oberth : the father of space travel -- The battle of the formulae -- From theory to experimentation -- Peenemunde : a scientific mobilization -- How the A-4 rocket became the V-2 -- Coming to America : Operation Paperclip -- The space age begins! -- Willy Ley rallies the nation for space -- Wernher von Braun : the Columbus of space -- Krafft Ehricke's extraterrestrial imperative.