Constructing the Model for Germany's "Moon Rocket"

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In exchange for Hermann Oberth’s services as scientific adviser to Woman in the Moon, Fritz Lang and the UFA studio helped finance the construction of a real liquid-fueled rocket to be launched from a site on the Baltic Sea in celebration of the film’s Berlin premiere. This publicity photograph shows a model of the six-and-a-half-foot rocket being built in an UFA workshop. Unfortunately, Oberth ran out of time and money and the project fizzled before the film opened.

Constructing the Model for Germany's "Moon Rocket", Unknown, Gelatin silver print

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