Willy Ley : Prophet of the Space Age /

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Already a highly respected rocket scientist and compatriot of Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley was the author of bestselling books and at the forefront of popular science journalism. But as von Braun came onto center stage with his Saturn rockets, Ley was ostracized and excluded from the limelight by yo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buss, Jared S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ley, Willy, > 1906-1969.
Scientists.
Rocketry.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Scientifiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
Scientists > United States > Biography.
Rocketry > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Youthful horizons
  • From the earth to the moon, via Berlin
  • Death of a science in Germany
  • Adventures of a romantic naturalist
  • The PM years and the science writers at war
  • An engineer's postwar dreams
  • The Tom Corbett years
  • The Sputnik challenge
  • Scholarly twilight
  • Epilogue: First citizen on the moon.

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