Books by Wernher von Braun
Across the Space Frontier. With Willy Ley, Fred L. Whipple, Joseph Kaplan et al. Cornelius Ryan, editor. New York: Viking, 1952.
Careers in Astronautics and Rocketry. With Carsbie C. Adams and Frederick I. Ordway III. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.
Conquest of the Moon. With Fred L. Whipple and Willy Ley. Cornelius Ryan, editor. New York: Viking, 1953.
Exploration of Mars. With Willy Ley. New York: Viking, 1956.
First Men to the Moon. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960.
History of Rocketry and Space Travel. With Frederick I. Ordway III. New York: Crowell, 1966. (Rev. ed. 1969, 1975, and, also with Dave Dooling, 1985.)
Man on the Moon. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1953.
The Mars Project. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1953.
Moon. With Silvio A. Bedini and Fred L. Whipple. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974.
The Rocket’s Red Glare. With Frederick I. Ordway III. New York: Doubleday, 1976.
Space Frontier. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
Books about Wernher von Braun
Andrews, John Williams. A. D. Twenty-One Hundred: A Narrative of Space. Boston: Branden Press, 1969.
Barber, John, and The Associated Press. Footprints on the Moon. New York: Associated Press, 1969.
Bergaust, Erik. Reaching for the Stars: A Biography of the Great Pioneer in Space Exploration, Wernher von Braun. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.
———. Rocket City U.S.A.: The Story of Huntsville, Alabama, Home of the Big Boosters. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
———. Wernher von Braun. Washington, D.C.: National Space Institute, 1976.
Bilstein, Roger E. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/ Saturn Launch Vehicles. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1980.
Carpenter, M. Scott, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.
Collins, Michael. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
Cunz, Dieter. They Came from Germany: The Story of Famous German- Americans. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1966.
David, Heather M. Wernher von Braun. New York: Putnam, 1967.
De Maeseneer, Guido. Peenemünde: The Extraordinary Story of Hitler’s Secret Weapons V-1 and V-2. Vancouver, Canada: AJ Publishing, 2001.
Dickson, Paul. Sputnik: The Shock of the Century. New York: Walker and Company, 2001.
Dornberger, Walter. V-2. New York: Viking, 1954.
Dunar, Andrew J., and Stephen P. Waring. Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960–1990. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1999.
Durant, Frederick C., III, and George S. James, eds. First Steps toward Space (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979).
Fallaci, Oriana. If the Sun Dies. New York: Atheneum, 1966.
Freeman, Marsha. How We Got to the Moon: The Story of the German Space Pioneers. Washington, D.C.: Twenty-first Century Associates, 1993.
Goodrum, John C. Wernher von Braun: Space Pioneer. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1969.
Gray, Mike. Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon. New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.
Huzel, Dieter K. Peenemünde to Canaveral. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
Klee, Ernst, and Otto Merk. The Birth of the Missile: The Secrets of Peenemünde. New York: Dutton, 1965.
Kraft, Chris. Flight: My Life in Mission Control. New York: Dutton, 2001.
Lasby, Clarence G. Project Paperclip: German Scientists and the Cold War. New York: Atheneum, 1971.
Leonard, Jonathan Norton. Flight into Space: The Facts, Fancies, and Philosophy. New York: Random House, 1953.
Ley, Willy. Rockets, Missiles, and Men in Space. New York: Viking, 1968.
———. Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel. New York: Viking, 1957.
Mailer, Norman. Of a Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.
McGovern, James. Crossbow and Overcast. New York: William Morrow, 1964.
Medaris, John B., with Arthur Gordon. Countdown for Decision. New York: Putnam, 1960.
Neufeld, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Werner von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.
Ordway, Frederick I., III, and Mitchell R. Sharpe. The Rocket Team: From the V-2 to the Saturn Moon Rocket—The Inside Story of How a Small Group of Engineers Changed World History. New York: Crowell, 1979. (Rev. ed., Burlington, Ontario: Apogee, 2003).
Stuhlinger, Ernst, and Frederick I. Ordway III. Wernher von Braun: Crusader for Space. 2 vols. Melbourne, Fla.: Krieger Publishing, 1994.
Stuhlinger, Ernst, Frederick I. Ordway III, Jerry C. McCall, and George C. Bucher, editors. Astronautical Engineering and Science: From Peenemünde to Planetary Space—Honoring the Fiftieth Birthday of Wernher von Braun. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963.
Thomas, Shirley. Men of Space: Profiles of the Leaders in Space Research, Development, and Exploration, Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1960.
von Braun, Magnus. Von Ostpreussen bis Texas [From East Prussia to Texas]. Stollhamm, Germany: Helmut Rauschenbusch-Verlag, 1955.
Walters, Helen B. Wernher von Braun: Rocket Engineer. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
Ward, Bob. The Light Stuff. Huntsville, Ala.: Jester Books, 1982.
———. Wernher von Braun Anekdotisch. Esslingen, Germany: Bechtle Verlag, 1972.
Wilford, John Noble. We Reach the Moon: The New York Times Story of Man’s Greatest Adventure. New York: Bantam, 1969.
Williams, Beryl, and Samuel Epstein. The Rocket Pioneers on the Road to Space. New York: Julian Messner, 1958.
Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.