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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buss, Jared S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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