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Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun
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Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun. Bob Ward. Naval Institute Press. 285 pages; black and white photographs; index; $29.95.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to enjoy Dr. Space, the biography of Wernher von Braun, the genius behind the rockets that got men to the moon. In fact, the cliché line about being a rocket scientist came as a reference to him and his team.
Born in Germany, von Braun spent almost his whole life working on rockets, first as the leader of scientists in Peenemünde firing V-2 rockets at western Europe and England, then in the United States under the ...
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Rocket Pioneers.(Wernher von Braun, Bernhard Tessmann and Karl Heimburg)
Magazine article from: Soldiers Magazine
; ROCKET Pioneers Wernher von Braun, Bernhard Tessmann and Karl Heimburg...in 1924, when he was 12, Wernher von Braun strapped skyrockets to his wagon...touring his fashionable neighborhood, von Braun gazed at the clouds and dreamed of...
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Dr. Space; the life of Wernher von Braun.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News
; 1591149266 Dr. Space; the life of Wernher von Braun. Ward, Bob. Naval Institute Press 2005...the middle ground in his treatment of von Braun, describing in full his achievements...gives balance by also describing how von Braun came to be a nazi and a member of the...
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Von Braun; dreamer of space, engineer of war.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News
; 9780307262929 Von Braun; dreamer of space, engineer of war. Neufeld, Michael...to the subtleties and complexities that made up von Braun's character. Neufeld is careful to explain von Braun's contexts from birth onward, his motivations for...
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The wrong stuff. (manned space exploration)
Magazine article from: The Progressive
; ...1952. One of the authors was Wernher von Braun, the ex-Nazi V-2 engineer whom songsmith...London town/Owe their large pensions.... Von Braun and his colleagues laid it all out with...its IGY deadline altogether. Meanwhile, von Braun and his buddies were lying low at an...
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De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...tradition of American astrofuturism --Werner von Braun, Willy Ley, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C...The following chapters are devoted to von Braun, Heinlein, Clarke, O'Neill, and Bova...speculations of the German rocket team [von Braun and company] and Americanized them, creating...
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Food shortages could spark riots.
Newspaper article from: Food & Drink Weekly
; ...of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Joachim von Braun, said there had to be a fundamental shift to boost the production...just the start of the social instability, the article quotes von Braun as saying. Demand is running away. The world has been consuming...
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Telecommunications.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...potential of telecommunications. Ed. by Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun. Johns Hopkins U. Press 2006 362 pages $25.95 Paperback HE8635 In collecting these case studies, Torero and von Braun, both of the International Food Policy Research Institute...
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Giant Leaps ... off a cliff: why U.S. space policy is all wrong.(Public Policy II)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...century--and they're still paying homage to the ideas conjured up by Wernher von Braun, the German designer of the devastating V-2 rocket. NASA remains wedded to von Braun's postwar concepts of big-ticket, government-run space exploration. It's owing...
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Sutton Publishing.(All the Kaiser's Men: The Life and Death of the German Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918)(From Nazis to NASA: The Life of Wernher Von Braun)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: California Bookwatch
; ...struggles every step of the way. For students of World War II history don't miss Bob Ward's FROM NAZIS TO NASA: THE LIFE OF WERNHER VON BRAUN (0730943033, $29.95) the father of modern rocketry holds a mixed reputation being a villain to many and a hero to others. Veteran...
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Joel Gilliam. (named first African American police chief of Decatur, Alabama)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; Joel Gilliam, retired commander of the Detroit Police Department and former public services supervisor at the Von Braun Civic Center in Alabama, has been named the first Black police chief of Decatur, AL. Gilliam said he plans to develop a force that...
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