Weltraumfahrt [Space Travel] / Beitraege zur Weltraumforschung und Astronautik [Contributions to Space Research and Astronautics (1950-52) / Zeitschrift for Raketentechnik [Journal of Rocket Technology] Stuttgart and Frankfurt) Author: Place: Stuttgart and Frankfurt, West Germany Publisher: Gesellschaft fur Weltraumforshung [Society for Space Research] Date: 1950-1955 Description: 15 issues comprising: 1950: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 (April, June, August, December) 1951: Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 (Feb., April, Aug., Oct., Dec.) 1952: No. 1 (Jan.) 1953: No. 3 (July) 1954: Nos. 2, 4 (Apr., Oct.) + 8pg. index to 1954 issues 1955: Nos. 2, 4 (Apr., Dec.) 23 to 32 pp. each. Text in German. Illustrated with photographs, graphs and diagrams. Original pictorial wrappers. The German Society for Space Travel (VfR), the world’s first space flight advocacy group, dissolved shortly after Hitler came to power. Some of its enthusiasts, like Wernher Von Braun, formed the nucleus of the Nazi Army’s V-2 rocket establishment at Peenemunde. In 1948, the VfR was reconstituted by Hans-Hermann-Koelle, a young Luftwaffe veteran turned aeronautical engineer. Through the Society, Koelle made contact with the German scientists employed by the US Army. The Society began to publish a quarterly journal, Weltraumfahrt, the first issue appearing in February 1950, under the editorship of Heinz Gartmann, a scientist and author who had done wartime rocket work for BMW. The journal would gain prominence in 1952 when, in a special issue, it would publish Von Braun’s first book, The Mars Project, a fictionalized blueprint for a manned round trip expedition to Mars in chemically-propelled spaceships. English-language publication in America would follow a year later. The 1950 and 1951 issues have front-cover futuristic drawings, one pays tribute to Oberth, the father of German spaceflight rocketry and another celebrates the Second International Congress for Astronautics in London. Later issues have photographs of American rockets and rocket facilities. There are articles on various astronautic subjects by Koelle, Gartmann, Willy Ley, Eugen Sanger, Dr. Hubertus Strughold and other Paperclip emigres. Copies of these early issues are rarely found in the US. Lot Amendments Condition: Edges chipped to one issue, not affecting text; very good. Item number: 318015
Weltraumfahrt [Space Travel] / Beitraege zur Weltraumforschung und Astronautik [Contributions to Space Research and Astronautics (1950-52) / Zeitschrift for Raketentechnik [Journal of Rocket Technology] Stuttgart and Frankfurt) Author: Place: Stuttgart and Frankfurt, West Germany Publisher: Gesellschaft fur Weltraumforshung [Society for Space Research] Date: 1950-1955 Description: 15 issues comprising: 1950: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 (April, June, August, December) 1951: Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 (Feb., April, Aug., Oct., Dec.) 1952: No. 1 (Jan.) 1953: No. 3 (July) 1954: Nos. 2, 4 (Apr., Oct.) + 8pg. index to 1954 issues 1955: Nos. 2, 4 (Apr., Dec.) 23 to 32 pp. each. Text in German. Illustrated with photographs, graphs and diagrams. Original pictorial wrappers. The German Society for Space Travel (VfR), the world’s first space flight advocacy group, dissolved shortly after Hitler came to power. Some of its enthusiasts, like Wernher Von Braun, formed the nucleus of the Nazi Army’s V-2 rocket establishment at Peenemunde. In 1948, the VfR was reconstituted by Hans-Hermann-Koelle, a young Luftwaffe veteran turned aeronautical engineer. Through the Society, Koelle made contact with the German scientists employed by the US Army. The Society began to publish a quarterly journal, Weltraumfahrt, the first issue appearing in February 1950, under the editorship of Heinz Gartmann, a scientist and author who had done wartime rocket work for BMW. The journal would gain prominence in 1952 when, in a special issue, it would publish Von Braun’s first book, The Mars Project, a fictionalized blueprint for a manned round trip expedition to Mars in chemically-propelled spaceships. English-language publication in America would follow a year later. The 1950 and 1951 issues have front-cover futuristic drawings, one pays tribute to Oberth, the father of German spaceflight rocketry and another celebrates the Second International Congress for Astronautics in London. Later issues have photographs of American rockets and rocket facilities. There are articles on various astronautic subjects by Koelle, Gartmann, Willy Ley, Eugen Sanger, Dr. Hubertus Strughold and other Paperclip emigres. Copies of these early issues are rarely found in the US. Lot Amendments Condition: Edges chipped to one issue, not affecting text; very good. Item number: 318015
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