The Rocket Team: From the V-2 to the Saturn Moon Rocket [Import] [Hardcover]

Frederick I. III and Mitchell R. Sharpe Ordway (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Crowell; 1ST edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043455300X
• ISBN-13: 978-0434553006
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,274,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good history, poor editing, December 14, 2003

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Jan Vanderbruggen (Heverlee, Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rocket Team: Apogee Books Space Series 36 (Hardcover)

The author provides an interesting insider's view of von Braun's rocket team. However, the book suffers from poor editing: names of cities in Germany and Belgium are quite simply incorrect. It also seems to me that the measurements of the missiles mentioned in the book cannot possibly be correct; they are given as metric, but are no doubt recalculations of English engineering units. The results are ludicrous. Range of the A4 is given as a convenient conversion of miles; engine diameter is a conversion of 1 foot, etc. If you are interested in a good read you will find lots of hard to find historical anecdotes in this book, but for me the story is spoiled and seriously flawed due to the aforementioned inconsistencies. Unfortunately this is not atypical for these kinds of histories. Some serious editing required!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, March 31, 2005

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M. DeFazio (VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rocket Team: Apogee Books Space Series 36 (Hardcover)

This book gives an accurate account of the Development of one of Germany's secret weapond in the second world war, the V-2 rocket, from the Germans scientist's point of view that developed it. It accurately describes the experiments, the tests and shows what the scientists behind Germany's V-2 rocket program were really like.

I recommend this book to all that are intrested in the seeds of space travel or World War Two.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Rocket Team Book, August 29, 2009

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Uncle Fred "Deadeye1969" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rocket Team (Apogee Books Space Series) (Paperback)

A great history of the German Rocket Team from the 1920's to modern U.S. Rockets, including a very interesting account of our Explorer One satellite.