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Oberth, Hermann Julius
Born: 1894 AD
Died: 1989 AD, at 95 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Died: 1989 AD, at 95 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
German-US (Austro-Hungarian Romanian-born) aerospace engineer and rocketry pioneer
wrote "The Rocket into Interplanetary Space" 1923
discovered equations governing rocket motion, independently of Robert Goddard and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
launched liquid-propellant rocket 1931
often considered father of space travel
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