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The extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) proposes that some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are best explained as being physical spacecraft occupied by extraterrestrial intelligence or non-human aliens, or non-occupied alien probes from other planets visiting Earth.
- Becomes Fascinated by Spaceflight
- Publishes Rocket Theories
- From The Earth to The Moon
- Describes Space Ships
- Contributes to Moon Exploration
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Hermann Julius Oberthwas born on June 25, 1894, in the German town of Hermannstadt, Transylvania; formerly a part of Austria-Hungary, the town is now known as Sibiu, Romania. His father, Julius Gotthold Oberth, was a medical doctor who was the director and chief surgeon of the county hospital in Schässburg, Transylvania, where Oberth grew up. His m...
In 1919 Oberth resumed his schooling, this time studying physics at the University of Klausenburg in Transylvania. He soon returned to the University of Munich and the nearby technical institute, then he attended the University of Göttingen, and finally he completed his studies for a Ph.D. at the University of Heidelberg. He submitted his doctoral ...
Hermann Oberth enjoyed reading science fiction. One of his favorite works was From the Earth to the Moon: Passage Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes, (1865) by the French novelist Jules Verne(1828–1905). It is a tale about the adventures of members of the Baltimore Gun Club, who travel to the Moon onboard a gigantic cannon that they ha...
After 1930 Oberth resumed liquid-propellant rocket experiments. He succeeded in launching one rocket in 1935, but he remained outside the mainstream of rocket development. In 1938 he received an appointment to the Technical Institute in Vienna, Austria, to work on liquid-propellant rockets under a contract with the German Air Force. He was unable t...
At ABMA, Oberth was involved in advanced planning for projects in space, including electrical and thermonuclear (energy produced from the nucleus of an atom with high temperatures) propulsion for rockets, guidance devices, and vehicles for the Moon. Von Braun believed that Oberth had inspired the roving vehicle used on the Apollo 15 flight to the M...
Books
Freeman, Marsha, Christina Huth, and Konrad Dannenberg, eds. How We Got to the Moon: The Story of German Space Pioneers.Washington, DC: Twenty-First Century Science Associates, 1994. Heppenheimer, T.A. Countdown: A History of Space Flight. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1987. Oberth, Hermann. Men into Space. Translated by G.P.H. De Freville. New York: Harper, 1957. Oberth, Hermann. The Moon Car.Translated by Willy Ley. New York: Harper, 1959. Walters, Helen B. Hermann Oberth: Father of Space Tr...
Periodicals
Frazier, Allison. "They Gave Us Space: Space Pioneers of the 20th Century." Ad Astra(January/February 2000): pp. 25–26. Oberth, Hermann. "From My Life." Astronautics(June 1959): pp. 38–39, 100–105. Winter, Frank H. "Was Hermann Oberth the True Father of Spaceflight?" Ad Astra(November/December 1996): pp. 40+. Yeomans, Donald. "'Space Travel Is Utter Bilge.'" Astronomy(January 2004): pp. 48+.
Web Sites
The Hermann Oberth Raumfahrt Museum.http://www.oberth-museum.org/index_e.html(accessed on June 29, 2004). Lethbridge, Cliff. "History of Rocketry Chapter 3: Early 20th Century—Hermann Oberth." Spaceline.http://spaceline.org/history/25.html(accessed on June 29, 2004). Strange, Christiaan. "Hermann Oberth: Father of Space Travel." http://www.kiosek.com/oberth(accessed on June 29, 2004). Verne, Jules. "Chapter 28. The Star." From the Earth to the Moon.http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/chapter2...
Nov 29, 2012 · Posing complex questions of fact and fiction, knowing and believing, and science and religion, this article analyzes the postwar UFO phenomenon as part of a broader astroculture and identifies transcendental and occult traditions within imagined encounters with extraterrestrial beings. Keywords: UFOs. outer space.
- Alexander C.T. Geppert
- 2012
Feb 15, 2024 · Hermann Oberth’s lecture notes from 1954 on the properties of UFOs provide an intriguing glimpse into his thoughts and observations regarding unidentified flying objects. Oberth described various shapes and behaviors of UFOs, noting that they often appeared as disks or ellipsoids and could rapidly change formation.
Mar 5, 2013 · Hermann Oberth's ideas about missiles and space travel make him one of three "fathers of rocketry."
Jul 3, 2019 · Hermann Oberth (June 25, 1894, died December 29, 1989) was one of the foremost rocket theorists of the 20th century, responsible for the theories that govern the rockets that loft payloads and people to space. He was a visionary scientist inspired by science fiction.
Hermann Julius Oberth. 1894–1989, born in Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary. An ethnic German from Transylvania, Oberth came to his spaceflight and rocket insights before World War I. In 1923 he published the book, The Rocket into Interplanetary Space.
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