He then served in the Navy as patent advisor to the National Defense Research Council during World War II. Naval Academy and a law degree from American University's Washington College of Law in 1940. O'Brien was Assistant General Counsel for Patent Matters at NASA between 19 when he was appointed an assistant commissioner of patents by President Lyndon B. Walters, Hermann Oberth: Father of Space Travel (New York: Macmillan, 1962). 38-39, 100-106 Frank Winter, Rockets into Space (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), pp. See his "Hermann Oberth: From My Life," Astronautics, June 1959, pp. It and its expanded version entitled Ways to Spaceflight (1929) set forth the basic principles of space flight and directly inspired many subsequent spaceflight pioneers, including Wernher von Braun. His doctoral dissertation being rejected because it did not fit into any established scientific discipline, he published it privately as Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ("The Rocket into Interplanetary Space") in 1923. A Transylvanian by birth but a German in his family heritage, he was educated at the Universities of Klausenburg, Munich, Göttingen, and Heidelberg.
Oberth (1894-1989) is one of the three recognized fathers of spaceflight. Oakes (1913-2001) had been a writer and then editor for the New York Times since 1946 and became editor of the editorial page in 1961. NASA History Division Biographies of Aerospace Officials National Aeronautics and Space Administration Biographies of Aerospace Officials and Policymakers, O-S
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