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Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons
American rocket scientist and chemist
Igor Sikorsky
Igor Sikorsky
American engineer
Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
German-born American engineer
Charles Stark Draper
American engineer
Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard
American professor and inventor
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Russian scientist
Qian Xuesen
Qian Xuesen
Chinese scientist
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
president of India
Stephanie Wilson
Stephanie Wilson
American astronaut
Michael Griffin
American aerospace engineer
B.J. Habibie
president of Indonesia
Burt Rutan
Burt Rutan
American aircraft and spacecraft designer
Hermann Oberth
German scientist
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Annadurai, Mylswamy
Mylswamy Annadurai
Indian aerospace engineer
Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson
American mathematician and engineer
Octave Chanute
Octave Chanute
American engineer
Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless
American naval aviator and astronaut
George Low
George Low
Austrian-born American aerospace engineer