Verein für Raumschiffahrt
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The Verein für Raumschiffahrt was a German amateur rocket association prior to World War II that included members outside Germany. The first successful VfR test firing with liquid fuel was conducted b
Supplementary issue of the periodical Die Rakete in 1927 (Around the Earth in an Hour and a Half)
Hermann Oberth
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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
Verein für Raumschiffahrt
…experiments were conducted at a farm near Bernstadt, Saxony. Space travel and rocketry gained popularity in Germany after the June 1923 publication of Herman Oberth's book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (English: The Rocket into Planetary Space) and the expanded 1929 work Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Ways to Spaceflight…
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