Hermann Oberth, the German father of rocketry, has a mixed legacy. On the one hand, he developed the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany during World II. On the other hand, his ideas, rejected as ...

Valier was one of the earlier popularizers of rocketry, writing popular articles and books that brought this ... In 1923, physicist Hermann Oberth published the meat of his doctoral research ...

In a sunlit courtyard in Montagnola, in the southern foothills of the Swiss Alps, German author and curator Regina Bucher is telling me about her lifelong fascination with Hermann Hesse.

Reading Hermann Hesse isn’t about racing to the end—it’s about sitting with his words, letting them stir things within you. His books don’t offer easy answers. They ask you to slow down ...

Read more about Musk’s praise for Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard, and Hermann Oberth. The three men helped pioneer early rocket-based space exploration. What’s next for SpaceX ...