Category
page 1Early spaceflight scientists
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
Robert H. Goddard
American physicist
Sergei Korolev
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)
Valentin Glushko
Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)
Theodore von Kármán
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)
Yuri Kondratyuk
Ukrainian Soviet scientist (1897–1942)
Mstislav Keldysh
Soviet mathematician and physicist (1911-1978)
Qian Xuesen
Chinese rocket scientist (1911-2009)
Friedrich Zander
Russian and Soviet engineer, rocket designer (1887-1933)
Vladimir Chelomey
Soviey scientist and engineer (1914-1984)
Nikolai Kibalchich
Ukrainian revolutionary and scientist (1853-1881)
Herman Potočnik
Slovenian inventor (1892-1929)
Mikhail Yangel
Soviet engineer and missile designer
Boris Chertok
Soviet rocket designer (1912-2011)
Walter Hohmann
German engineer (1880-1945)
Hideo Itokawa
Japanese aerospace engineer (1912-1999)
Jack Parsons
American rocket engineer (1914–1952)
Mikhail Tikhonravov
Soviet spaceflight scientist
Arthur Rudolph
rocket engineer (1906-1996)
Max Valier
Austrian physicist and rocketry pioneer (1895–1930)
Kurt H. Debus
rocket engineer and scientist (1908–1983)
Vladimir Barmin
Soviet scientist
Walter Thiel
German rocket scientist (1910-1943)
Ary Abramovich Sternfeld
Russian early spaceflight scientists (1905–1980)
Boris Rauschenbach
Soviet physicist (1915-2001)
Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov
Soviet engineer
Frank Malina
American aeronautical engineer and painter (1912-1981)
Gaetano Crocco
Italian scientist (1877-1968)
Kazimierz Siemienowicz
Polish military engineer and artillery officer
Magnus von Braun
German engineer (1919–2003)
Klaus Riedel
German rocket scientist (1907-1944)
Dieter Grau
Rocket scientist (1913-2014)
Nikolai Tikhomirov
Russian engineer (1859-1930)
Hubertus Strughold
German scientist and perpetrator of Nazi-sponsored medical torture; participant in Operation Paperclip
Konrad Dannenberg
Rocket pioneer (1912-2009)
Dmitry Okhotsimsky
Russian mathematician (1921–2005)
Hermann Ganswindt
German aerospace engineer (1856–1934)
Timur Eneev
Russian mathematician (1924-2019)
Eberhard Rees
German rocket scientist
Rudolf Nebel
German rocket scientist (1894-1978)
Anatolii Dorodnitsyn
Russian mathematician (1910-1994)
Sergei Izotov
Soviet scientist and jet engines designer (1917—1983)
Helmut Hölzer
German rocket engineer (1912-1996)
Walter Riedel
German rocket scientist (1902-1968)
Walter Haeussermann
German-American aerospace engineer (1914-2010)
Georg von Tiesenhausen
Baltic German–American aerospace engineer (1914-2018)
Leonid Voskresensky
Soviet rocket engineer (1913-1965)
Karel Bossart
Belgian American rocket scientist
Guido von Pirquet
aerospace engineer (1880–1966)
Werner Dahm
early spaceflight scientist of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office
Fritz Mueller
engineer from Germany
Oswald Lange
German-American aerospace engineer
Tecwyn Roberts
American spaceflight engineer (1925–1988)
Oscar Holderer
German-American rocket scientist (1919-2015)
George Edward Pendray
journalist, rocketeer
Oleg Ivanovsky
Russian engineer (1922-2014)