Dad got me a subscription to Popular Science when I a
was about 11 years old in ‘62. I really enjoyed reading Were Von Braun’s articles about the American space program, especially Apollo. I don’t ever recall him writing phrases like “the launch on on America’s biggest, baddest rocket, tricked out with every conceivable booster.”
He had a great knack for communicating to lay people without such banalities. He really respected his readers.
I sure do miss America’s pre-dumbed-down days.
Werner, not Were. IPad dumbing-down.
My dad subscribed for as long as I could remember, and the subscription has continued in the years since his passing. Those Von Braun articles were great; somewhere I have a paperback collection of them with the updates (such as, the target year for the Mars missions).