Eccentric Orbits by John Bloom

Eccentric Orbits by John Bloom

Author:John Bloom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2016-04-27T14:49:18+00:00


The original satellite geek was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a half-deaf high school math teacher regarded as a crackpot in his little town on the Russian steppe: his calculations made orbital vehicles possible.

Transylvanian Hermann Oberth was rejected by the University of Göttingen as a “romantic futurist” when he proposed the multistage rocket, but found his calling on the set of the first outer-space movie.

Herman Potočnik, a Slovene engineer, wrote The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor but couldn’t get it published in Europe.



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