Comments on: A Rocket Voyage to the Moon (Sep, 1929)

By: Charles Draper

Charles Draper — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:43:30 +0000

In August 1929, Mr Oberth oversaw the static firing of his first liquid-fuelled rocket motor, named the Kegeldüse. He was assisted by an 18 year-old student, Werner von Braun. Oberth and von Braun worked together on the V2, and the latter was responsible for designing the Saturn V.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:23:54 +0000

2500 Miles/Sec=9,000,000 miles per hour!
That there is one fast rocket!
The hard part would be stopping in time so’s you don’t punch on through the moon.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:52:09 +0000

Dang!
#1 Should have said ‘miles per second’ like the article did!

It was obviously a typo for ‘meters per second’.

If only there WERE rockets with an exhaust velocity of
2500 miles per second!

By: Kosher Ham

Kosher Ham — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:16:41 +0000

Of course with unmanned programs we got there sooner.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:45:02 +0000

That’s what the nazis wanted us to think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeAfoiN5SDw

By: r peltier

r peltier — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:25:50 +0000

It was solved in 1929…but apparently it didn’t work and was never reported on.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:29:16 +0000

KH: It happened a lot sooner than that! Try 12 September 1959 by the Russians with Luna 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_2

Soft landing was by Surveyor 1 on 2 June 1966

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1

By: Kosher Ham

Kosher Ham — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:03:59 +0000

Well we eventually did it July 13, 1969. However the leading researcher (for the rockets) was a German!

By: jayessell

jayessell — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:02:14 +0000

2,500 meters per second.
500 times orbital velocity.
1.3% the speed of light.

Yeah, that would do it.