The incredible story of spaceflight before the founding of NASA. NASA's history is a well-known story, often culminating with Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the Moon in 1969. However,...
The incredible story of spaceflight before the founding of NASA. NASA's history is a well-known story, often culminating with Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the Moon in 1969. However, America's space agency was not created in a vacuum. It was formed from existing components, bringing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to...
The incredible story of spaceflight before the founding of NASA. NASA's history is a well-known story, often culminating with Neil Armstrong taking his first steps on the Moon in 1969. However, America's space agency was not created in a vacuum. It was formed from existing components, bringing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.
In the 1930s, rockets were all the rage in Germany, focusing both on scientists hoping to fly into space and the German armed forces trying to bypass the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. One of the key figures of this period was Verner von Braun, an engineer who designed the rockets that became the destructive V-2s. As the war approached its chaotic end, von Braun escaped the ruins of Nazi Germany and moved to America, where he began developing rockets for the U.S. military. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force looked toward an era where humans would fly into space, and test pilots like Neil Armstrong flew top-tier, rocket-powered aircraft in the thin atmosphere.
Breaking the Chains of Gravity tells the story of America's emerging space program, its scientific advancements, the personalities involved, and the rivalries it sparked across different branches of the U.S. military. At this point, the mission to send a human into space became a national imperative, leading to the creation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, known as NASA.
Pages: 304, Year of Publication: 0202, Dimensions: 13x13cm
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