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Yet another one who, after reading Jules Verne's \"From Earth to the Moon\" as a young boy (age 11 in this case), became determined to find a way to travel space. He independently determined the same rocketry principles as Ziolkovsky and Goddard. The difference with Oberth is that in 1929 he published \"The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space\", a highly influential book that was internationally acclaimed and persuaded the world that the rocket was something to take seriously as a space vehicle. Oberth was also Wernher Von Braun's teacher, bringing him into the German rocket program. Of the three great rocketry pioneers, Oberth was the only one who lived to see men travel through space and land on the moon.
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