Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Max_ValierMax Valier - Wikipedia

    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 ...

    • Austrian
  2. Max Valier. 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. Valier helped found the Society for Space Travel in Germany in 1927. He carried out several highly visible rocket stunts in 1928–29 and became the first casualty of ...

  3. 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 sought ...

  4. Max Valier was born on February 9, 1895, in Bozen, Austria-Hungary, now Bolzano Italy. He enrolled in the University of Innsbruck in 1913 and studied astronomy, mathematics, and physics until he enlisted in an aviation unit in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I (1914-1918). After the war, he attended schools in Vienna and Munich.

  5. Feb 28, 2014 · In January of 1924, a copy found its way into the hands of Max Valier, an avid astronomer and science popularizer. Valier was taken with Oberth’s book, enthralled at the idea of rocket carrying ...

  6. Give. 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. He carried out several highly visible rocket stunts in 1928–29 ...

  7. Max Valier (1895 - 1930), a pioneer of aerospace and of rocket technology, was born in the South Tyrolean main town of Bolzano. See video. Max Valier was born on the 9th of February 1895 in Bolzano, and was interested in astronomy since a young age. In 1913 he started to study astronomy, meteorology, mathematics and physics at the University of ...

  8. People also ask

  1. People also search for