The museum is dedicated to the famous scientist Hermann Oberth (1894 - 1980), born in Sibiu, one of the founders of modern rocketry and astronautics. As a child, he was fascinated by Jules Verne's novel "From Earth to the Moon". His dissertation became the now celebrated book "The Rocket into Planetary Space", published in 1923. He addressed the complicated problems of flight 40 years before space flight became a reality.