Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

Indeed Von Braun said of him:
In 1938 the Oberth family left Sibiu Romania for good to first settle in Austria then in Nazi Germany then in the United States and finally back to a free Germany. In 1922 Oberth's proposed doctoral dissertation on rocket science was rejected as "utopian". Oberth returned to the United States to view the launch of 61A the space shuttle Challenger launched October 30 1985.

Hermann Julius Oberth (25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer.