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Signed book: Space Medicine: The Human Factor in Flights Beyond the Earth, edited by John P. Marbarger. First edition. Urbana, Illinois: The University of Illinois Press at Urbana, 1951. Softcover, 6 x 9, 83 pages. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page in ballpoint, "Herrn Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, in dankbarer Verehrung, Werner von Braun, Septembre 51." Dornberger’s personal bookplate is affixed to the inner front cover and to the book’s preface page. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/None, with creasing to the wrappers and wear to the spine.
Included with the von Braun-signed book are two other books deriving from the personal library of Walter Dornberger (1895-1980), the leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. After World War II, under the auspices of Operation Paperclip, Dornberger became a leading figure in U.S. aerospace and missile development—helping develop early guided nuclear missiles, playing a major role in the X-15 and Dyna-Soar spaceplane projects, and contributing conceptually to programs that ultimately led to the Space Shuttle.
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Das Marsprojekt: Studie einer interplanetarischen Expedition by Wernher von Braun [German language]. First edition. Frankfurt, Germany: Umschau-Verlag, 1952. Softcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.25, 82 pages. Dornberger’s personal bookplate is affixed to the half-title page. Book condition: G/P, with large losses to the jacket.
The Mars Project by Wernher von Braun. First English edition. Urbana, Illinois: The University of Illinois Press at Urbana, 1953. Hardcover with dust jacket, 7.25 x 9.25, 91 pages. The half-title page is signed in blue ink by Dornberger, whose bookplate is affixed to the first free end page. Includes a slip signed by Alexander Krivetsky (1914-2005), who worked at Bell Aerosystems on zero-gravity expulsion technique. Book condition: VG-/G+, with toning to extremities, small edge tears and creasing to the jacket, and a bit of dampstaining to the edges.
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