The Rocket into Planetary Space
- ISBN-10
- 3486990675
- ISBN-13
- 9783486990676
- Category
- Science
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-22
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
- Author
- Hermann Oberth
Description
For all being interested in astronautics, this translation of Hermann Oberth’s classic work is a truly historic event. Readers will be impressed with this extraordinary pioneer and his incredible achievement. In a relatively short work of 1923, Hermann Oberth laid down the mathematical laws governing rocketry and spaceflight, and he offered practical design considerations based on those laws.
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