From Peenemünde to the Moon

If U.S. hopes are fulfilled the tremendous power of the Saturn IB rocket motor should, within a few weeks, lift a three-man spacecraft to orbit the earth. Wernher von Braun, the German V2 rocket engineer who played a critical part in the development of U.S. rocketry, appears in a report on 700 years of rocket science and its attempt to realise a space travel dream.