The immigrant -- The authorized biography -- The cover-up -- The reborn rocketeer -- Redstone -- Selling space: the Collier's articles -- Disneyland -- The first race for space -- The Soviet chief designer and Sputnik -- Explorer I -- Celebrity -- The challenge of the Moon -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- The Moonship -- Blunders and disasters -- Men on the Moon -- Shuttle, space station, and the decline of NASA -- Exile in America: von Braun's last years -- Epiliogue: The Man Who Sold the Moon