Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 19
Oberth in the 1950s
Hermann Oberth as a young boy, c. 1901
Portrait of Hermann Oberth, before 1930
Informal group photograph of leading members of the VfR, including Oberth and von Braun, August 5, 1930
Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926
Hermann Oberth
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Dr. Robert H. Goddard GPN 2002 000131
Goddard at Clark University
Goddard loading a rocket in 1918
Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention—the first liquid-fueled rocket.