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This dimension groups pioneers of spaceflight by the year they were born. Wikipedia notes that early milestones such as "the first human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1) in 1961" were achieved by a generation born decades before spaceflight itself existed. Browsing by birth year lets a visitor compare pioneers from the same generation.

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

20th century

Abe Silverstein

20th century

Aleksei Isaev

20th century

Annie Easley

20th century

Antony Hewish

20th century

Arthur C. Clarke

20th century

Arthur Rudolph

20th century

Ary Sternfeld

20th century

Bernard Lovell

20th century

Boris Chertok

20th century

Charles Stark Draper

20th century

Christopher Kraft

20th century

David Lasser

20th century

Dmitry Kozlov

20th century

Dorothy Vaughan

20th century

Eberhard Rees

20th century

Ernst Stuhlinger

20th century

Eugen Sänger

20th century

Frank Drake

20th century

Frank Malina

20th century

Gene Kranz

20th century

George Edward Pendray

20th century

George Low

20th century

George Mueller

20th century

Georgy Babakin

20th century

Gerard K. O'Neill

20th century

Hideo Itokawa

20th century

Homer Newell

20th century

Hubert Curien

20th century

Jack Parsons

20th century

James Fletcher

20th century

James Van Allen

20th century

James Webb

20th century

JoAnn Morgan

20th century

John Houbolt

20th century

Judith Love Cohen

20th century

Karel Bossart

20th century

Katherine Johnson

20th century

Kerim Kerimov

20th century

Klaus Riedel

20th century

Konrad Dannenberg

20th century

Krafft Ehricke

20th century

Kurt Debus

20th century

Liang Sili

20th century

Margaret Hamilton

20th century

Martin Ryle

20th century

Mary Golda Ross

20th century

Mary Jackson

20th century

Maxime Faget

20th century

Melba Roy Mouton

20th century

Mikhail Yangel

20th century

Mstislav Keldysh

20th century

Nikolai Kuznetsov

20th century

Nikolay Pilyugin

20th century

Poppy Northcutt

20th century

Qian Xuesen

20th century

Ren Xinmin

20th century

Robert Gilruth

20th century

Robert Truax

20th century

Rocco Petrone

20th century

Samuel Phillips

20th century

Satish Dhawan

20th century

Sergei Korolev

20th century

Sergey Afanasyev

20th century

Simon Ramo

20th century

Sun Jiadong

20th century

T. Keith Glennan

20th century

U. R. Rao

20th century

Val Cleaver

20th century

Valentin Glushko

20th century

Vasily Mishin

20th century

Vikram Sarabhai

20th century

Vladimir Barmin

20th century

Vladimir Chelomei

20th century

Wang Xiji

20th century

Wernher von Braun

20th century

William Hayward Pickering

20th century

Willy Ley

20th century

Yang Jiachi

20th century

Yuri Mozzhorin

20th century

Yvonne Brill

20th century

Zhao Jiuzhang

20th century
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1. Wikipedia: Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
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  • 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
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