Die Frau im Mond (1929)

[János Széky]

Actually Professor Oberth, the foremost German rocket expert at that
ime is featured as ""wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter", scientific
contributor/consultant, which might be have been a fact unknown for
Pynchon when he made Pökler jab at technical inaccuracies.

János

2012/3/7 Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 18:45:32 -0600
>  Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "They saw Die Frau im Mond. Franz was amused, condescending. He picked
>> at technical points. He knew some of the people who'd worked on the
>> special effects.
>
>
> The people Franz knows who'd worked on the special effects are Hermann
> Oberth, author of "Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen", and Rudolf Nebel.
>
> Thomas