To the Moon and Back chapter sampler

The Space Race

around them. The rockets were the brainchild of Wernher von Braun and his team. At the end of the war von Braun and other German engineers emigrated to the United States, while others went to work in the Soviet Union. Although the German rockets were made to destroy English cities, von Braun and his team dreamt of using their rocket designs to build spacecraft for space exploration, not war. Now others were following this dream too.

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