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The Woman in the Moon (1929)

He created the rocket industry. His ideas and designs for how rocket launch pads were built, a rocket standing upright against a tall building before launch,

In 1929, Fritz Lang’s influential German science fiction film Woman in the Moon was released. The film showcased the use of a multi-stage rocket, and also pioneered the concept of a rocket launch pad (a rocket standing upright against a tall building before launch) and the rocket-launch countdown clock. Lang was inspired by the 1923 book The Rocket into Interplanetary Space by Hermann Oberth, who became the film’s scientific adviser and later an important figure in the team that developed the V2 rocket. The film was thought to be so realistic that it was banned by the Nazis when they came to power for fear it would reveal secrets about the V-2 rockets.