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
It illustrated an article about Pioneer Rocket Theorist Hermann Oberth, now 63 and a consultant to Von Braun's Huntsville team, which venerates him as "The Old Gentleman."
From Time Magazine Archive
A rewarding project for space men, said Oberth, is to set a gigantic mirror revolving on an orbit thousands of miles from the earth.
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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