The Legacy of the Oberth-Rocket of 1935

摘要

In 1933 Werner Briigel published the book "Men of the Rocket" (Publisher: Hochmeister and Thai, Leipzig). It was a treatise of the young science of space-travel written by their creators. Hermann Oberth was also among the contributors. His article contained the sketch of a new experimental rocket, whose function was briefly described, but details were not given [01]. Another 50 years passed, before Hans Barth, in his biography of Oberth, again mentioned this rocket. Barth cites a 1933 letter to Otto Wiemer in Germany, in which Oberth writes about a "half-completed" model of a rocket. He also reports that Oberth in 1948 had written to Willy Ley that he had flown his first small liquid rocket in 1935 [02]. Ley, sort of ignored this short statement of Oberth, with the result, that little became known of this rocket.