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Author: Bob Ward
Foreword by: John Glenn

Published by: Smithsonian Books, June 2004

From Nazi party member to the director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (and the brains behind the United States' moon landing), Wernher von Braun continues to be a compelling and controversial figure in American history. He was the guiding light for American space flight, creating the breakthrough technologies of the Mercury and Apollo programs, yet his association with the Nazi party during World War II has overshadowed his accomplishments. Bob Ward devoted more than ten years of research and conducted 150 interviews with von Braun's colleagues to complete this behind-the-scenes biography, and he looks into the stories, heroics, and contradictions to paint a full portrait of an enigmatic man.