Beginning with fighter pilots in World War II, Maurer traces the origins of the Apollo program to a few exceptional soldiers, a Nazi engineer, and a young eager man who would become president. Packed with adventure, new stories about familiar people, and undeniable danger, Richard Maurer takes an unflinching look at a tumultuous time in American history, and presents a narrative on how the United States won the space race against Russia by landing...

Presents a brief biography of the sister of Orville and Wilbur Wright.

An account of the development of the rocket from nineteenth-century dream and speculation to the giant towers of power that today launch astronauts and satellites into space.