'Heated bidding' for rocket scientist's thesis

摘要

A formerly top-secret document produced by controversial rocket scientist Wernher von Braun for his PhD dissertation sold for US$33,000 at auction in New York last week. The 166-page thesis, Design, Theoretical and Experimental Contributions to the Problem of the Liquid-Fuel Rocket, was classified as 'top secret' by the Nazi government and, although written in 1934, was not published until 1960.