Sending people into space to go to the moon. If you think about it you might ask yourself, “How did it start?” Well Hermann Oberth was part of it. Hermann Oberth was born on June 25, 1894. He had scarlet fever when growing up and read “From the Earth To the Moon.” When he grew up he went to the University of Munich to study medicine. He backed out of medicine to learn physics and started presenting ideas on rocket flight. Oberth then published the book “The Rocket Into Planetary Space” in 1929. In the Spring of 1931 Oberth launched his very first rocket, the infamous V2, or the Vengeance Weapon for the German Army. After WW II, he started to work at the United States’ Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Alabama. He is known to be the father of
