Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers of Other Nations

Rocket and spacecraft engineers who led the space programs of countries outside the United States, China, Germany and the Soviet Union and Russia, whose engineers have groups of their own. It includes A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the aerospace engineer who led Indian satellite launch vehicle work before becoming president of India, Hideo Itokawa, the father of Japanese rocketry, and Val Cleaver, the British rocket engineer who developed de Havilland and Rolls-Royce rocket engines. A person belongs here when the cited source names another nation as the home of their engineering career.