The museum, department of the National Museum of Romanian Aviation, is dedicated to the famous scientist Hermann Oberth (1894 - 1980), born in Sibiu, one of the founders of modern rocketry and astronautics. As a child, he was fascinated by Jules Verne's novel "From Earth to the Moon". His dissertation became the now celebrated book "The Rocket into Planetary Space", published in 1923. He addressed the complicated problems of flight 40 years before space flight became a reality. The museum was inaugurated in 1994 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great scientist Hermann Oberth, pioneer of interplanetary flight and missile technology. The museum is divi...ded into three modules exhibition dedicated to Conrad Haas, inventor of the first stage fuel missile, Hermann Oberth, father of space flight and Dumitru Dorin Prunariu first Romanian cosmonaut. The museum contains a series of themed exhibits such as trening of cosmonauts suit, models of the Buran space shuttle, rocket V2 or Saturn V. In audio-video room documentary films about the history of the conquest of space are shown. It is a department of the National Aviation Museum (Bucharest).
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