More Disney and von Braun

As a follow-up to the Scientist and the Cinema, in an earlier book, Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science by M.G. Lord, there is a similar account of how Walt Disney possibly made von Braun a household name. The review of Lord's book has this comment:

For example, the selling of rocket science to politicians and the public caught a wave of excitement with the introduction of Walt Disney to rocket science and the commercial and popular success of Disneyland. Disney raised von Braun to iconic status—every story needs a hero. The whole country was glued to the television set to see spaceflight portrayed in short films such as "Man in Space" and "Man and the Moon" created by the artful Disney cartoonists. Lord leaves us wondering just how much those fanciful previews influenced the decision to go to the moon.

It looks like both authors came to the same conclusion.

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