375 pgs, 1994, Krieger Publishers
ISBN 978-0894649691

This book is based on the very close personal relationships between von Braun and the authors (Stuhlinger for 34 years and Ordway for 25). More than 100 carefully recorded and edited interviews and several hundred verbal and written comments on von Braun by people who knew him well were used for the book. While the book broadly maintains the historical sequence of events, particular features of von Braun's character, his ways of working and managing, and of just plainly enjoying his life, often take precedence over chronology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Rockets in War and Peace
2. Beginnings
3. Rocket Center Peenemunde
4. A New Start in Texas and New Mexico
5. Huntsville, Alabama, Rocket City and Space Capital, U.S.A.
6. Troubled Birth of Explorer 1
7. Dawn of the Space Age
8. Journey to the Moon
9. The Human side of a Spaceman
10. Footprints in Huntsville
11. Move to Washington
12. The Fairchild Years
13. The Curtain Falls