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Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian -born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. [3] Oberth supported Nazi Germany 's war effort and received the War Merit Cross (1st Class) in 1943.
Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Ways to space travel) is a book by Hermann Oberth. Written in German, it was published in 1929 by the Munich Oldenbourg publishing house [1] and was considered a standard work in rocketry for a long time. It was - with a new title and completely revised - the 3rd edition of Oberth's first book Die Rakete zu den ...
Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894—December 28, 1989) was a German physicist, and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. In 1922 , his doctoral dissertation on rocket science was rejected as "utopian".
Another serious explosion at 12:29 PM on August 28, 1944, killed 27 people and caused significant damage to the facility. Among the 27 casualties was Ilse Oberth (1924–1944), the youngest daughter of rocket pioneer Hermann Julius Oberth. Ilse Oberth worked at the facility as a rocket technician and had arrived four months earlier on April 28 ...
The Hermann Oberth Space Travel Museum (Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum, or Hermann-Oberth-Museum for short) is a museum of space technology in the Franconian city of Feucht in Bavaria, Germany. It commemorates the life work of the famous visionary and rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth. Exhibits include a Kumulus rocket and a Cirrus rocket, which ...
Oberth effect. Not to be confused with Gravity assist. In astronautics, a powered flyby, or Oberth maneuver, is a maneuver in which a spacecraft falls into a gravitational well and then uses its engines to further accelerate as it is falling, thereby achieving additional speed. [ 1 ] The resulting maneuver is a more efficient way to gain ...
The Hermann Oberth Gesellschaft (1952-1993) [3] was an association named after Hermann Oberth, [4] the German astronautics pioneer and the authoritative expert on rocketry outside the United States, [5] which develops and builds rockets and trains engineers in space technology. The association was founded on the initiative of the german rocket ...
Oberth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Hermann Oberth (1894–1989), Hungarian-born Transylvanian Saxon physicist and engineer