Kate Klimo, who had the idea of my telling this story; Martha Armstrong, who knew them; and Dr. Jane Cotton Ebbs, who got me started when I was ten with talk about her space-food work for the army.
Others who helped: Arlene and Barry Borden, Abigail and Alan Dallmann, David Rohn, Jonathan Flaccus, Faith Moeckel, Martin Levitt, Jeffrey Carr, Robert Herbert, Dawn Armstrong, and Dr. Peter H. Smith, senior research scientist and principal investigator for the Mars Phoenix Lander, of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. “We’re bound to find something out there!” he said when I interviewed him.
Suggestions for further reading: Karen Ordahl Kupperman’s Captain John Smith (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988) is a good collection of John Smith’s writings. Another is John Lankford’s Captain John Smith’s America (New York: Harper & Row, 1967). For more about Wernher von Braun, I recommend Michael J. Neufeld’s Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (New York: Knopf, 2007) and Ernst Stuhlinger and Frederick I. Ordway III’s Wernher von Braun: Crusader for Space (Florida: Krieger Publishing Company, 1994).