The Rocket into Planetary Space

✍ Scribed by Hermann Oberth

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 106
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

- For the first time this historic work appears in English

- The book allows the reader to go back to the beginning, appreciate the problems associated with space travel and understand the never ending quest for space exploration

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword to 2nd Edition
Table of Contents
List of the Most Important Formula Variables and Abbreviations
1. Introduction
Part I Principle of Operation and Performance
2. Most Favorable Velocity
3. Relationships between Time, Mass, Force, Distance, Air Pressure and Most Favorable Velocity
4. Propulsion Apparatus and Jet Velocity
5. The Free Flight of the Rocket
6. Andruck
7. Discussion. Results of Our Investigations Thus Far
Part II Description of Model B: Discussion of Technical Implementation
8. Introductory Remarks
9. The Alcohol Rocket
General
Description of the Alcohol Rocket
Instruments of the Alcohol Rocket
10. The Hydrogen Rocket
General
Description of the H.R
Instruments of the H.R
11. Measurements with Model B
12. About the Technical Devices
Part III Purpose and Prospects
13. Physical Effects of Abnormal Andruck on Humans
14. Psychological Effects of Abnormal Andruck Conditions
15. Dangers during Ascent
16. Equipment of the Rocket
17. Outlook
Addendum
Postscript