"Elegant, erudite, exhaustively researched in German and English, Neufeld's Von Braun soars where no biography has gone before. It renders 'a man in full' of the Prussian aristocrat, space flight dreamer, weapons designer, erstwhile Nazi, born-again Christian, born-again American, media pitchman, and engineering genius whose rockets first carried human beings in the race to the Moon."
--Walter A. McDougall
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of
The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age.
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space/Engineer of War
April 11, 2008, 2:00 p.m. at the Georgia Institute of Technology
The National Archives Southeast Region is pleased to announce that Michael J. Neufeld, chair of the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, will deliver a lecture on his recently published book, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space/Engineer of War. Wernher von Braun, the chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and creator of the infamous V-2 rocket, was one of the fathers of the United States space program.
Mr. Neufeld's research took him to numerous libraries and archival repositories, including the National Archives Southeast Region, focusing on the records from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Neufeld's book will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow the presentation
Location
Georgia Institute of Technology
Library, Neely Gallery
Time
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. on April 11, 2008
More Information
The session is free. For information, please call (770) 968-2100.
