Home›Pioneers›Birth Year›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis 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.Facts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonField Origin EraWell-attested1903 120th centuryFilter Results82 entriesRoleAllAmerican Rocketry and Space Pioneers (4)American Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers (9)Astronomers Behind Space Science (4)British Rocketry and Space Pioneers (1)Chinese Spacecraft Engineers (6)German Rocket Engineers (5)German-Speaking Rocketry Pioneers (3)Guidance and Control Engineers (3)Human Computers, Mathematicians and Software Pioneers (7)NASA Leaders and Flight Directors (16)Russian and Soviet Rocketry Pioneers (2)Soviet and Russian Program Leaders (3)Soviet and Russian Spacecraft Designers (11)Space Program Leaders of Other Nations (5)Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers of Other Nations (3)AgencyAllAerojet Rocketdyne (1)China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (3)China Academy of Space Technology (3)China National Space Administration (1)CNES (1)Draper (1)Glenn Research Center (1)Goddard Space Flight Center (1)Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (1)ISRO (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory (3)Kennedy Space Center (1)Lockheed Martin (1)NASA (19)NPO Lavochkin (1)Progress Rocket Space Centre (1)Roscosmos (8)Soviet space program (3)TRW Inc. (1)TsNIIMash (1)NationalityAllAmerican (18)American (Cherokee Nation) (1)Austrian-born American (1)Austrian-German (1)Belgian-American (1)Chinese (1)English (1)German (1)German, later American (1)German-American (3)Indian (3)Japanese (1)Polish, naturalized Soviet (1)Russian (1)Soviet (3)Soviet (Ukrainian) (2)Soviet-Russian (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 82A. P. J. Abdul Kalam20th centuryAbe Silverstein20th centuryAleksei Isaev20th centuryAnnie Easley20th centuryAntony Hewish20th centuryArthur C. Clarke20th centuryArthur Rudolph20th centuryAry Sternfeld20th centuryBernard Lovell20th centuryBoris Chertok20th centuryCharles Stark Draper20th centuryChristopher Kraft20th centuryDavid Lasser20th centuryDmitry Kozlov20th centuryDorothy Vaughan20th centuryEberhard Rees20th centuryErnst Stuhlinger20th centuryEugen Sänger20th centuryFrank Drake20th centuryFrank Malina20th centuryGene Kranz20th centuryGeorge Edward Pendray20th centuryGeorge Low20th centuryGeorge Mueller20th centuryGeorgy Babakin20th centuryGerard K. O'Neill20th centuryHideo Itokawa20th centuryHomer Newell20th centuryHubert Curien20th centuryJack Parsons20th centuryJames Fletcher20th centuryJames Van Allen20th centuryJames Webb20th centuryJoAnn Morgan20th centuryJohn Houbolt20th centuryJudith Love Cohen20th centuryKarel Bossart20th centuryKatherine Johnson20th centuryKerim Kerimov20th centuryKlaus Riedel20th centuryKonrad Dannenberg20th centuryKrafft Ehricke20th centuryKurt Debus20th centuryLiang Sili20th centuryMargaret Hamilton20th centuryMartin Ryle20th centuryMary Golda Ross20th centuryMary Jackson20th centuryMaxime Faget20th centuryMelba Roy Mouton20th centuryMikhail Yangel20th centuryMstislav Keldysh20th centuryNikolai Kuznetsov20th centuryNikolay Pilyugin20th centuryPoppy Northcutt20th centuryQian Xuesen20th centuryRen Xinmin20th centuryRobert Gilruth20th centuryRobert Truax20th centuryRocco Petrone20th centurySamuel Phillips20th centurySatish Dhawan20th centurySergei Korolev20th centurySergey Afanasyev20th centurySimon Ramo20th centurySun Jiadong20th centuryT. Keith Glennan20th centuryU. R. Rao20th centuryVal Cleaver20th centuryValentin Glushko20th centuryVasily Mishin20th centuryVikram Sarabhai20th centuryVladimir Barmin20th centuryVladimir Chelomei20th centuryWang Xiji20th centuryWernher von Braun20th centuryWilliam Hayward Pickering20th centuryWilly Ley20th centuryYang Jiachi20th centuryYuri Mozzhorin20th centuryYvonne Brill20th centuryZhao Jiuzhang20th centurySources1. Wikipedia: Tsiolkovsky rocket equationtier 2Wikimedia FoundationTsiolkovsky rocket equation, lead sectionThe 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-PelterieContains: Hermann GanswindtContains: Ary SternfeldContains: Eugen SängerContains: Ernst StuhlingerContains: Boris ChertokContains: Mikhail YangelContains: Vladimir ChelomeiContains: A. P. J. Abdul KalamContains: Hideo ItokawaView the SourceEncyclopedia Britannica: Space ExplorationEncyclopedia Britannica, Inc.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.