• Thumbnail for Max Valier
    Max Valier (9 February 1895 – 17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He was a leading figure in the world's first large-scale rocket program, Opel-RAK...
    6 KB (638 words) - 14:18, 31 October 2023
  • Venice Silvestro Valier (1630 – 1700), the 109th Doge of Venice Max Valier (1895 – 1930), Austrian rocketry pioneer Literature Valier (Middle-earth), female...
    596 bytes (113 words) - 11:36, 3 April 2021
  • Max Valier is a 15 kg (33 lb) X-ray telescopic satellite which was built in a collaboration by the Gewerbeoberschule "Max Valier" Bozen, the Gewerbeoberschule...
    1 KB (100 words) - 15:52, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Opel-RAK
    Opel, of the Opel car company, in association with others, including Max Valier, Julius Hatry, and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander. Opel RAK is generally considered...
    27 KB (3,587 words) - 05:05, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liquid-propellant rocket
    experiments, among them Max Valier, Willy Ley, and John D. Clark, have given differing amounts of credence to Paulet's report. Valier applauded Paulet's liquid-propelled...
    53 KB (6,625 words) - 00:23, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket car
    of propulsion for vehicles. In the 1920s, he initiated together with Max Valier, co-founder of the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt", the world's first rocket...
    7 KB (846 words) - 19:41, 4 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Verein für Raumschiffahrt
    successful VfR test firing with liquid fuel (five minutes) was conducted by Max Valier at the Heylandt Works on January 25, 1930; and additional rocket experiments...
    7 KB (669 words) - 13:28, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lippisch Ente
    Stamer as part of the Opel-RAK rocket program led by Fritz von Opel and Max Valier. During the late 1920s von Opel had made a variety of demonstrations involving...
    8 KB (492 words) - 09:22, 16 October 2023
  • derailed at high speed, killing 6 of the 22 on board, including Abakovsky. Max Valier (1895–1930) invented liquid-fuelled rocket engines as a member of the...
    27 KB (2,871 words) - 13:11, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Opel
    rocket technology. In the 1920s, Fritz von Opel initiated together with Max Valier, co-founder of the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt", the world's first rocket...
    95 KB (9,196 words) - 09:38, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of rockets
    manufacturer Opel began public demonstrations of rocket vehicles, together with Max Valier and the solid-fuel rocket builder Friedrich Wilhelm Sander, called Opel-RAK...
    99 KB (11,826 words) - 22:37, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friedrich Wilhelm Sander
    development contracts offered by the Navy. In 1928, he was approached by Max Valier, on behalf of Fritz von Opel to provide rockets to propel cars and aircraft...
    11 KB (1,530 words) - 04:45, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fritz von Opel
    powered cars and planes commissioned by Fritz von Opel, in association with Max Valier co-founder of the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt", and Friedrich Wilhelm Sander...
    20 KB (2,536 words) - 07:55, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket-powered aircraft
    Ocean in an aircraft. Paulet publicly criticized Austrian rocket pioneer Max Valier's proposal about a rocket-powered aircraft completing the journey faster...
    33 KB (4,082 words) - 06:32, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Opel RAK.1
    spaceflight was suggested to von Opel by Max Valier. After the World War I, Valier became highly interested in rocketry. Valier, in 1927, he was one of the co-founders...
    22 KB (3,155 words) - 23:28, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
    January 2023. "V2ROCKET.COM – Mittelwerk / DORA". www.v2rocket.com. "Max Valier: Modern Rocketry's First Casualty". 18 March 2019. "German Rocket Motor...
    96 KB (3,107 words) - 20:18, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for V-2 rocket
    Rumble" fad in the popular media was initiated by Fritz von Opel and Max Valier, a collaborator of Oberth, by experimenting with rockets, including public...
    97 KB (11,298 words) - 23:13, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deutsches Museum
    technologies over the world's first rocket program Opel RAK, initiated by Max Valier, Friedrich Wilhelm Sander and himself, to NASA's space missions of the...
    17 KB (1,810 words) - 13:42, 1 February 2024
  • by Viktor Kaplan Rumpler Tropfenwagen by Edmund Rumpler Valier-Heylandt Rak 7 by Max Valier The Turk, a chess-playing automaton and Wolfgang von Kempelen's...
    4 KB (359 words) - 21:35, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pedro Paulet
    kilograms of thrust. Replying to comments in 1927 by Austrian inventor Max Valier discussing a rocket powered aircraft crossing the Atlantic Ocean faster...
    28 KB (3,472 words) - 19:01, 27 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Robert H. Goddard
    influenced by European rocketry pioneers like Hermann Oberth and his student Max Valier, at least as proponent of the idea of space rocketry and source of inspiration...
    123 KB (15,680 words) - 10:54, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johannes Winkler
    1897 – 27 December 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who co-founded with Max Valier of Opel RAK the first German rocket society "Verein für Raumschiffahrt"...
    4 KB (404 words) - 06:25, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Valier (crater)
    Valier is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is nearly attached to the western rim of the crater Tiselius. To the north-northwest...
    5 KB (387 words) - 02:13, 26 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket sled
    centrifugal forces. Apart from rare examples running on snow or ice (such as Max Valier's RAK BOBs of the late 1920s), most rocket sleds run on a track. Although...
    18 KB (901 words) - 18:18, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wernher von Braun
    Raketenrummel or "Rocket Rumble" fad initiated by Fritz von Opel and Max Valier was highly influential on von Braun as a teenage space enthusiast. He...
    135 KB (16,081 words) - 21:59, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Austrians
    aeronautical engineer and President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Max Valier (1895–1930), rocketry pioneer Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), inventor...
    42 KB (4,564 words) - 06:38, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arthur Rudolph
    pioneer Max Valier.: 54  Valier had use of the factory grounds for his experiments in rocketry and Rudolph became interested, working with Valier in his...
    31 KB (3,347 words) - 03:23, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Lippisch
    1930. In 1928, partaking in the Opel-RAK program by Fritz von Opel and Max Valier, Lippisch's tail-first Ente (Duck) was equipped with powder rockets by...
    16 KB (1,819 words) - 15:38, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Einstein Probe
    of Sciences (CAS) in partnership with European Space Agency (ESA) and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) dedicated to time-domain...
    9 KB (738 words) - 15:18, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hermann Oberth
    volume is dedicated to Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou. Oberth's student Max Valier joined forces with Fritz von Opel to create the world's first large-scale...
    47 KB (5,772 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2024