Part II: Letter from Prof. Dr. Oberth
    Sitting in front of me here now is an ancient letter, yellowed with age, that Professor Hermann Oberth wrote to me back in 1961 . It's dated Nov. 20, 1961, and it's on stationery from the El Cortez Hotel in San Diego. Click on the letter to see it enlarged.     I also have the draft copies of his submissions in his handwriting for the Wernher von Braun 50th Anniversary (1962), and an autographed copy of one of his books. I was asked to review Professor Oberth's English translation of his original manuscript, written in German, one page of which you see above.
    One day, when I was picking him up from his motel or taking him back at night, he mentioned that "Seitz" is a Romanian name. I had heard that before, from a store clerk in Cleveland.

    Beneath that letter is another letter that I wrote to him congratulating him on his 70th birthday. In it is a passage that I had long wanted to find again. It 's a quotation from T. E. Lawrence, repeated by Robert Goddard in his autobiography. It goes,

    "All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they act upon their dreams with open eyes to  make them possible. This I did."