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He is the author of more than a dozen books on space flight, and, during his post-WWII student years in Germany and many well-known science fiction novels. His novelette "The Sleeping God" was published in the English language anthology Star Trek: The New Voyages 2, edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, ISBN 0-553-11392-5. His diary/book on the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 was published in 1982 in Beijing in a Chinese translation. A revised edition of this book is being published for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in July 2009. (April 2009)
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