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
Soon, European amateurs and scientists alike were also experimenting with rockets, most of them inspired by The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, a booklet published in 1923 by Rumanian Professor Hermann Oberth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University.
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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