In this photo, Dr. Wernher von Braun holds the coveted Hermann Oberth award presented to him by Professor Oberth during the banquet hosted by the Alabama Section of the American Rocket Society (ARS), on October 19, 1961.
In this photo, Dr. Wernher von Braun holds the coveted Hermann Oberth award presented to him by Professor Oberth during the banquet hosted by the Alabama Section of the American Rocket Society (ARS), on October 19, 1961. The Romanian born Oberth’s book, The Rocket into Planetary Space (1923), explained how rockets escape the Earth’s gravitational pull and was very influential to a young von Braun’s own thinking of space exploration. The Oberth award is given for outstanding technical contributions to the field of astronautics or for the promotion and advancement of astronautical sciences.
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