That's not my department!

[sovay]

I cannot believe this statement is true:

Michael J. Neufeld, the author of "Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War" (Knopf; $35), acknowledges that "hardly anyone under age forty" knows his subject's name, even though America's moon shots owed a large measure of their success to him.
—Thomas Mallon, "Rocket Man: The Complex Orbits of Wernher von Braun."

If nothing else, doesn't anyone still listen to Tom Lehrer?

Comments

[sovay]

This post has me trying to think of how many depictions of von Braun I've encountered in alternate history.

Because he should be a major jumping-off point? Hm. I don't think I've seen any.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Mostly just because he's a character that folk might want to throw in, I suppose.

Sort of like Richard Nixon.