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| | M.E.A. - The Space Pioneer,hermann oberth,stuhlinger,von braun,rocket history (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | This speech was originally given at the International Space Hall of Fame, Alamo Gordo, New Mexico, in October, 1976 by one of the top rocket scientists and a long-time colleague and friend of Hermann Oberth, Prof. |
 | | She bought and read the books of Jules Verne; when Hermann was twelve, she gave him these books to read, and she opened to him the world of the moon, the planets, and the stars, a world that was to become his own real world for all the years to come. |
 | | Even with these propellants, he found out, a rocket to the moon would be tremendously large, and probably not technically feasible; so he suggested that the space rocket should have several stages, each of them to be ignited when the previous rocket had spent its fuel. |
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