“If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.”

— Hermann Oberth

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About Hermann Oberth

Physicist • German

Hermann Julius Oberth was a pioneering German physicist and engineer, widely regarded as one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. His doctoral thesis, rejected as too fantastical, laid the theoretical...

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