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Raketenflugplatze Berlin established by Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt VfR in Germany. Issue 3 of the Bulletin of the American Interplanetary Society is published by David Lasser . Articles and announcements include - news of funding by the Guggenheim Foundation for Robert H. Goddard 's experiments, word from Marchese Guglielmo Marconi Marconi that he thinks Mars could be ...

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... his ongoing history of Rocket Propulsion in the magazine Practical Mechanics . The article in the September edition covers the subject up to the year 1930.

Image:1930-05-24_Valier_Obit.jpg '''Max Valier's Obituary, Dolomite May 24th 1930'''

... brief paper presented at the XXVIIIth International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congress held in Prague, 25 September - 1 October 1977. Although it is generally assumed that recreational model rocketry, including commercially available ...

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... of previous experiments, further tests using kerosene as fuel were conducted on (Saturday), May 17, 1930. These tests were fatal to Valier. The tests were begun early that afternoon. The first ...

Image:1930-05-20_Alpenzeitung_Valier's_death.jpg Alpenzeitung article reporting Max Valier's death. Article gets many facts wrong including how he was killed. The report states he was near his rocket car when it exploded, when in fact he was standing near a work bench in his work shop.

Image:1930-06-05_Valiers_Funeral.jpg Report on Max Valier 's funeral which describes a Lufthansa aircraft and a light aircraft circling the cemetery during the ceremony.

Image:1930-04-01_Valier_article.jpg Max Valier's last astronomy column for Alpenzeitung magazine.

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