Amy Shira Teitel's Breaking The Chains Of Gravity

In her book “Breaking The Chains of Gravity” Amy Shira Teitel tries to explain the history behind the formation of NASA. She states that NASA’s achievements, from the moon landing to the New Horizons flyby of Pluto can be traced back to 1920s Germany, where Max Valier and Hermann Oberth’s first experiments with rocket propulsion coincided with the rise of Hitler and later Wernher von Braun’s infamous V-2 rocket. After Teitel explains the German stage she effectively explains the bureaucratic rivalries generated by competing ideas for getting above the earth’s atmosphere in the United States, by providing backstory to how the Mercury space capsule, rather than the X-15 hypersonic plane, became the first American manned space vehicle. She offers