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Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun. By Bob Ward. Annapolis Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005. Photographs. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 282. $29.95. ISBN: 1-59114-926-6

One might ask, "Why another book about Wernher von Braun?" Long before the end of von Braun's illustrious career, Erik Bergaust wrote Reaching for the Stars: A Biography of the Great Pioneer in Space Exploration, Wernher von Braun (1960) and, quite recently, Dennis Piszkiewicz completed Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon (1998). Ernst Stuhlinger and Frederick Ordway III ...

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