Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

male, deceased (1977) (United States)
Aerospace engineer, rocket, NASA personnel, Earlyspaceflightscientist, Saturn V, v-2 rocket…scientist, Rocket Scientist
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket...
Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán

male, deceased (1963)
Earlyspaceflightscientist, Astronautics, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Presidential Medal for Merit recipient, naturalized citizen of the United States, hungarian…scientist
Theodore von Kármán (Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor was a Hungarian-American engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronau...
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

male, deceased (1935)
astronautic theory, Earlyspaceflightscientist, Astronautics, Russian, science fiction writer, space travel…Soviet scientist, Rocket Scientist, scientist
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (September 19, 1935) was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of astronautic theory who...
Arthur Rudolph

Arthur Rudolph

male, deceased (1996)
Earlyspaceflightscientist, NASA personnel, Rocketry, rocket, United States Army, Nazi Germany…scientist
Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (9 November 1906 - 1 January 1996) was a rocket engineer for Nazi Germany who helped develop and produce the V-2 rocket....
Hermann Oberth

Hermann Oberth

male, deceased (1989)
German Military, Lutheran, Earlyspaceflightscientist, Austro-Hungarian, craters of the Moon named after them, Babeş-Bolyai University alumni…Rocket Scientist, German scientist, Romanian-born German rocket scientist, eager scientist
Dr. Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German and Romanian physicist, and, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the...
Sergey Korolyov

Sergey Korolyov

male, deceased (1966)
Earlyspaceflightscientist, Vostok program, Zhytomyr, ICBM, sputnik, gulag…Soviet scientist, scientist
Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, (Zhytomyr – January 14, 1966, Moscow), was the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer during the Space Race between th...
Max Valier

Max Valier

male, deceased (1930)
Austrian-Italian, Earlyspaceflightscientist, from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Rocketry, World War I, twentieth century…spaceflight
Max Valier was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring t...
Tsien Hsue-Shen

Tsien Hsue-Shen

male, 97 years old
H.S. Tsien, Earlyspaceflightscientist, NASA, communist, 3763 Qianxuesen, University of Science & Technology of China alumni…scientist
Tsien Hsue-shen (born December 11, 1911) is a scientist who was a major figure in the missile and space programs of both the United States and...
Robert H. Goddard

Robert H. Goddard

male, deceased (1945)
liquid-fueled, liquid rocket, Earlyspaceflightscientist, American, scientist, Episcopalian
Robert Hutchings Goddard, Ph.D. (October 5, 1882 - August 10, 1945), U.S. professor and scientist, was a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled...
Konrad Dannenberg

Konrad Dannenberg

male, 97 years old
physicist, Rocketry, From Huntsville, Alabama, Redstone, naturalized, NASA personnel…Earlyspaceflightscientist
Konrad Dannenberg is a rocket pioneer. At the age of two, he and his family moved to Velber with Hanover, where he spent his youth. A lecture by...