Аннотация: Hermann Oberth and the eight cosmic million. A culturological and historical essay.
Hermann Oberth and the eight cosmic million. A culturological and historical essay.
One of the arguments used by Kostikov in the "signals" about Langemak, Kleymyonov and others was the assertion about the irrational use of public funds by the potential pests and the enemies of the people.
In this regard, the transition from theory to practice, which had taken place in the biography of one of the founders of cosmonautics Hermann Oberth (1894 - 1989), is interesting.
In 1928, Hermann Oberth received an invitation to become a scientific consultant for the film "The Woman in the Moon".
This was the beginning of the 20th century. Interest in the space theme grew in European society.
The German Universum Film AG company decided to make a film about space flight. By this time, Hermann Oberth had become a generally recognized author, writing scientific works on the topic of space. He corresponded with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
A hiring Hermann Oberth as a consultant for the film made sense.
Initially, it seemed that working as a consultant would distract Hermann Oberth, a gymnasium teacher in one of the "German cities" in Romania, from space research. However, Hermann Oberth found it useful to spend a long time in Berlin and establish contacts with people interested in a issues of space.
In Berlin, Hermann Oberth turned from a consultant to an experimenter. From the funds of the film director and from the funds of the Universum Film AG company, he received money to build an experimental rocket and to her launch. (The film company guaranteed own interests by concluding an agreement with Oberth to receive 50 percent of Oberth's potential income - if he makes profitable inventions during his work on the rocket model).
Experimenter Oberth and his work became excellent promotional content that sparked public interest in the film.
Hermann Oberth turned from a theoretician to an experimenter. He created important elements of an efficient rocket engine, which were successfully tested.
It was not possible to launch the rocket before the release of the film. In the advertisements, the film company employees showed both Oberth himself and the place of the future launch of the experimental rocket, and even mounted photographs, announcing the first experimental launch of the rocket (fulfilled by Oberth). Nobody was willing to listen to refutations.
The audience was warmed up and eagerly awaited the appearance of the new film.
The film studio earned 8 million marks from the film. Oberth became not only a space flight theorist, but also an experimental practitioner, a recognized expert on rocketry. While working as a consultant for the film and conducting experiments in Berlin, he created important engine components for a space rocket.
Around Oberth and his works in the capital of Germany, a team of like-minded people united - people passionate about space.
After finish filming of the film, Oberth returned to Romania to work as a gymnasium teacher.
His associates in Berlin had bought technical samples created by Oberth from the film studio, and continued experiments. The students of a technical higher school in Berlin, among whom was Wernher von Braun, joined to the team of experimenters.
There were revenues and expenditures, there were achievements and failures, but there were no reports, messages of the irrational use of public resources to the control authorities. There was no social space for the appearance of the Kostikovs.
June 29, 2021 18:45
Translation from Russian into English: June 29, 2021 20:48.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Герман Оберт и восемь космических миллионов. Культурологический и исторический очерк".