Rocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddards early experiments with liquid fuel rockets through World War II and the work of Wernher von Braun and his German engineers on to the postwar improvements made by Sergei Korolev and his team in the Soviet Union and culminating with the historic Moon walk made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20 1969. From designers to engineers and even communication specialists and the builders who assembled these towering rock