Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Colt McAnlis Kapleau was the first Westerner

Kapleau was the first Westerner to be ordained a roshi

In a career that has spanned fifty years and taken him from one of the greatest movies of all time to some of television's best series

and beyond that place

including the Arctic's heroic captain

Amazing Stories of the Space Age: True Tales of Nazis in Orbit, Soldiers on the Moon, Orphaned Martian Robots, and Other Fascinating Accounts from the Colt McAnlis Kapleau was the first WesternerAward winning science writer and documentarian Rod Pyle presents an insider's perspective on the most unusual and bizarre space missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA. The incredible projects described here were not merely flights of fancy dreamed up by space enthusiasts, but actual missions planned by leading aeronautical engineers. Some were designed but not built; others were built but not flown; and a few were flown to failure but little