The theorists, engineers and computing figures whose work made spaceflight possible, without themselves having flown. They are grouped here by role into space science and rocketry theorists, spacecraft and rocket engineers, mission control and program leadership, and computing and guidance pioneers.
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1. Wikipedia: Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
Wikimedia FoundationTsiolkovsky rocket equation, lead section
The equation is named after and usually credited to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who derived and published the formula in 1903, though William Moore had outlined it as early as 1810 and elaborated further in a book published in 1813.
- Contains: Robert Esnault-Pelterie
- Contains: Hermann Ganswindt
- Contains: Ary Sternfeld
- Contains: Eugen Sänger
- Contains: Ernst Stuhlinger
- Contains: Boris Chertok
- Contains: Mikhail Yangel
- Contains: Vladimir Chelomei
- Contains: A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Contains: Hideo Itokawa
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