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Born January 29, 1850 • Greenwich • England
Died July 6, 1915 (aged 65) • Sydney • Australia
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Theodore von Kármán
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Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
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Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
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Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
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Robert Goddard
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Sergei Korolev
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Robert C. Seamans, Jr.
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George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir George Cayley
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