A German-Romanian physicist whose 1923 book on rocketry for spaceflight helped found the field of astronautics in Europe and directly influenced the amateur rocket societies that trained the engineers of the later German rocket program.
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Defining ContributionFounding theorist of European astronautics and mentor to a generation of rocket engineers 1 Notable WorkDie Rakete zu den Planetenraumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, 1923) 1 Connections
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Oberth mentored von Braun in the German rocketry societies of the late 1920s; von Braun later called Oberth the man who first showed him that spaceflight was an engineering problem, not a dream.
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica: Space Exploration
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Wikimedia FoundationHermann Oberth, Wikipedia - infobox (born)
25 June 1894
Hermann Oberth, Wikipedia - infobox (died)
28 December 1989
Hermann Oberth, Wikipedia - infobox (full name)
Hermann Julius Oberth
- Associated With: Wernher von Braun, Hermann Oberth, lead section
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