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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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1903 1
All Pioneers
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Abe Silverstein

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Aleksei Isaev

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Annie Easley

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Antony Hewish

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Arthur C. Clarke

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Arthur Rudolph

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Ary Sternfeld

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Bernard Lovell

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Boris Chertok

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Caroline Herschel

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Charles Stark Draper

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Christopher Kraft

Mission Control and Program Leadership

David Lasser

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Dmitry Kozlov

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Dorothy Vaughan

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Eberhard Rees

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Edmond Halley

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Ernst Stuhlinger

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Eugen Sänger

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Frank Drake

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Frank Malina

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Friedrich Zander

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Gene Kranz

Mission Control and Program Leadership

George Edward Pendray

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

George Low

Mission Control and Program Leadership

George Mueller

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Georgy Babakin

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Gerard K. O'Neill

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Giovanni Battista Hodierna

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Henrietta Swan Leavitt

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Hermann Ganswindt

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Hermann Noordung

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Hermann Oberth

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Hideo Itokawa

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Homer Newell

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Hubert Curien

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Hugh Dryden

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Jack Parsons

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

James Fletcher

Mission Control and Program Leadership

James Van Allen

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

James Webb

Mission Control and Program Leadership

JoAnn Morgan

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Johannes Kepler

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

John Houbolt

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Judith Love Cohen

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Karel Bossart

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Karl Ludwig Harding

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Katherine Johnson

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Kerim Kerimov

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Klaus Riedel

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Konrad Dannenberg

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Krafft Ehricke

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Kurt Debus

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Liang Sili

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Margaret Hamilton

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Martin Ryle

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Mary Golda Ross

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Mary Jackson

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Max Valier

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Maxime Faget

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Melba Roy Mouton

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Mikhail Tikhonravov

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Mikhail Yangel

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Mstislav Keldysh

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Nikolai Kibalchich

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Nikolai Kuznetsov

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Nikolai Rynin

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Nikolay Pilyugin

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Philip E. Cleator

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Pierre Méchain

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Poppy Northcutt

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Qian Xuesen

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Reinhold Tiling

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Ren Xinmin

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Robert Esnault-Pelterie

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Robert Gilruth

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Robert Goddard

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Robert Truax

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Rocco Petrone

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Rudolf Nebel

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Samuel Phillips

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Satish Dhawan

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Sergei Korolev

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Sergey Afanasyev

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Simon Ramo

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Sun Jiadong

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Susan G. Finley

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

Sylvia Acevedo

Computing and Guidance Pioneers

T. Keith Glennan

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Theodore von Karman

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

U. R. Rao

Mission Control and Program Leadership

Urbain Le Verrier

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Val Cleaver

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Valentin Glushko

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Vasily Mishin

Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers

Vesto Slipher

Space Science and Rocketry Theorists

Vikram Sarabhai

Mission Control and Program Leadership
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Tsiolkovsky 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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Encyclopedia Britannica: Space Exploration
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
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