My grandfather dabbled in the new high-tech world. He had an electronics store. He worked on big engineering projects. And, of course, the great German scientist was working on this just 70 miles to the east. This would have been fascinating to him.

We're obviously looking at some of Fred Freedman's illustrations here, but the text itself is intriguing. You're reading digestible technical explanations of a journey into space, and trips to the moon, which Werner von Braun predicted would become commonplace.

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