Wernher von Braun

Preface The editors of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology believe that this first yearbook provides unrivaled coverage of the most significant scientific and technical events of the past year. Much of importance occurred during 1961. Man plunged farther into space and bored...

From the dawn of human history, man has witnessed the phenomenon of the moon rising above the horizon of the earth. For centuries man has dreamed of reversing the perspective, substituting the moon's horizon for that of the earth and the earth for the moon as the planet whose rise is perceived....