Tag: v-2
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retro-weekend drive-in: disney’s 1955 ‘man in space’
Walt Disney helped sell American public on Space. Man in Space, first of a three-part series in the fifties, proved popular and possibly for its pyrotechnics and inclusion of a multitude of rocket firings! You’ll like this film if you like fireworks! The V-2 rocket and WAC Corporal, two early successful rockets, are covered. “The…
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hermann oberth: father of space travel
Hermann Oberth is a rare example where science married fiction and it became difficult to tell the two apart. Oberth called the “Father of Space Travel” for his visionary writing about the future of space, was greatly influenced by Jules Verne, when at the age of 11, his mother gave him Verne’s “Earth to the…