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    Max Valier (9 February 1895 – 17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He was a leading figure in the world's first large-scale rocket program, Opel-RAK , and helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR – "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the ...

  2. Max Valier helped popularize Hermann Oberth’s ideas in Germany and Austria in the 1920s. He had limited technical education but a gift for reaching the public.

  3. On July 5, 1927, Max Valier was instrumental in creating the Verein fur Raumshiffahrt (VfR) or “Spaceflight Society,” the world’s largest amateur rocketry society at the time. Among its most illustrious members were Valier, Oberth, Klaus Riedel, Walter Hohmann, Willy Ley, and Wernher von Braun.

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  5. Max Valier, born in Bozen, Austria-Hungary, in 1895, helped popularize Hermann Oberth’s ideas in Germany and Austria in the 1920s. He had limited technical education but a gift for reaching the public. Valier helped found the Society for Space Travel in Germany in 1927.

  6. Mar 11, 2014 · Max Valier. Valier is best known as one of the rocket’s chief cheerleaders in the 1920s. He was so excited by the technology and the rocket’s potential to send men into space that he...

  7. Max Valier (1895 - 1930), a pioneer of aerospace and of rocket technology, was born in the South Tyrolean main town of Bolzano.

  8. Feb 28, 2014 · In 1924, Max Valier imagined rocket planes that weren't too far from those that flew half a century later.

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