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.
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (Wikipedia)
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was an Indian aerospace engineer and science administrator
Hideo Itokawa (Wikipedia)
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was a pioneer of Japanese rocketry
Val Cleaver (Wikipedia)
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was a distinguished British rocket engineer
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (Wikipedia)
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A pioneer in the field of rocket artillery, he was renowned for his development and use of Congreve rockets during the Napoleonic Wars.
Friedrich Schmiedl (Wikipedia)
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Friedrich Schmiedl (11 May 1902-11 September 1994) was an Austrian rocket designer; known particularly for his development of rocket mail.
Richard Varvill (Wikipedia)
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is a British engineer, famous as the former Chief Designer
Alwyn Crow (Wikipedia)
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was a British scientist involved in research into ballistics, projectiles and missiles from 1916 to 1953
Alan Bond (engineer) (Wikipedia)
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is a British mechanical and aerospace engineer, who served as managing director of Reaction Engines Ltd
Lagâri Hasan Çelebi (Wikipedia)
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was an Ottoman scientist, engineer and aviator who, according to the account written by traveller Evliya Çelebi, made a successful crewed rocket flight
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