Oberth, Hermann Julius

Born: 1894 AD
Died: 1989 AD, at 95 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
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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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