''Friede'' (German: peace) was a fictional spacecraft designed by
Hermann Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberth (; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Ts ...
and was featured in the 1929
silent movie
''Silent Movie'' is a 1976 American satirical comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in the summer of 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, and Sid Cae ...
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Woman in the Moon
''Woman in the Moon'' (German language, German ''Frau im Mond'') is a German science fiction silent film that premiered 15 October 1929 at the UFA-Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin to an audience of 2,000. It is often considered to be one of the f ...
''. The ''Friede'' was, at the time, the most realistic depiction of space travel, having multiple stages, liquid fuel, and other details. Having the ''Friede'' submerged in water before launch was not replicated for actual Moon launches, however.
In the film, the ''Friede'' carried five passengers and a stowaway. The ''Friede'' was designed to travel to the Moon in search of gold, and the crew successfully found gold on the Moon. One crew member, Turner, tried to hijack the ship. Turner was shot and killed, but the bullets damaged the oxygen tanks, and the crew came to the grim realization that one of them must remain. Two people stayed behind on the Moon, which was depicted as having a breathable atmosphere.
During the 1930s, all schematics and blueprints related to the ''Friede'' were confiscated by the
Gestapo
The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organi ...
and were lost during the war. Hermann Oberth had trouble creating a flying miniature for the premiere of the movie.
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Fictional spacecraft
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