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Oberth

American  
[oh-bert, oh-bert] / ˈoʊ bərt, ˈoʊ bɛrt /

noun

  1. Hermann Julius 1894–1989, German physicist: pioneer in rocketry.


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The mission concept study decisively settles one engineering question: whether to launch the probe toward the Sun and use its enormous gravity as a slingshot, an idea called the Oberth maneuver.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022

Over several days at a private residence looking out to the snow capped Ouray Mountains in Montrose, Colorado, the group talked rocket propulsion, rocket equations and rocket gurus—Konstantin Tsiolkovksy, Hermann Oberth, Wernher Von Braun.

From Time ● Sep. 20, 2016

As a publicity stunt for the movie's premiere, Oberth was to launch a tremendous rocket of his own design at a deserted spot on the Baltic coast.

From Time Magazine Archive

Father of the science of astronautics, according to its devotees, is Hermann Oberth, 59.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oberth figured out the mathematical equations which proved that space flight was practical.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

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