Getting to grips with rocket science

In 1938 Malina joined many of his Caltech (California Institute of Technology) scientific colleagues in the Communist party, when it was apparently less a pro-Russian revolutionary conspiracy than a liberal-socialist extension of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. Malina, in spite of political antagonism, collaborated with von Braun during the Cold War. The focus, of course, is on the crew of Apollo 11, Mike Collins, Buzz Aldrin and the commander, Neil Armstrong — the first man to set foot on the Moon, and so, as Whitehouse writes, ‘the most famous man on Earth’.

Source: spectator.us