The Man Who Wanted to Be the Christopher Columbus of Outer Space

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Wernher von Braun built rockets in both Nazi Germany and post-war America, and he had a lifelong obsession with being the Christopher Columbus of outer space. Michael Neufeld of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is the author of a new book, Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War.

Von Braun is available for purchase at amazon.com

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