Oberth
Americannoun
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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
Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But Kessel ring and Hermann G�ring gave Oberth a big staff of technicians and the run of German laboratories.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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