If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
About Hermann Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberthwas an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany’s war effort and received the War Merit Crossin 1943.
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Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
The rockets… can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)