Tag: rudolf nebel
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Did Germans Launch Manned Rocket in 1933?
Was Otto Fischer, brother to German rocket designer Bruno Fischer, first to man a rocket? An article at io9.com relates, “on October 29, 1933, the London Sunday Referee published a report from Rugen, an island in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Germany. Someone named Otto Fischer had flown inside a 24-foot steel…