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Moon Professor. The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University. A stiff, old-fashioned pedagogue, Professor Oberth has long been famed in Europe as a writer on occultism and a pioneer in the study of interplanetary rocket flying. In 1923, when he published one of the first schemes for projecting a rocket into interplanetary space, he was nicknamed "the moon professor." He also predicted murderous rockets capable of being sent halfway around the earth and exterminating whole populations...
...Rocket to the Moon (UFA). Originally called The Girl in the Moon, this was made in Germany under the direction of Hermann Oberth, German rocket experimenter. In the belly of the gigantic rocket, tearing at 24,000 m.p.h. toward the dark face of the moon which no human being has ever seen, strapped down and writhing with the terrific pressure among fantastic instruments of control, is shown a nice old-fashioned love triangle consisting of two scientists and the girl for whose favor they are rivals. There is also one of the backers of the flight and the inventor...
...moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society, an organization of lunar and planetary aspirants whose members include Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocketeer (TIME, July 29, 1929), and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, arctic-antarctic explorer, listened to a paper...
...Inventors Poirer, Lyon, Oberth and Esnault-Pelterie had had their rocket planes in readiness last week, they might have reached a planet with a short jaunt of only 16 million miles. The tiny asteroid Eros passed closer to the earth than any other body except the moon and an occasional comet ever comes. Men could see it with strong binoculars, scrutinize it with telescopes...
After praising Herr Oberth and giving him the prize, the French Astronomical Society gravely warned that trips to the moon are still wholly impractical...