The pioneers who worked out how rockets could reach space and then built them, in Germany, Russia and the United States. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the person a rocket engineer, rocket pioneer, physicist or theorist of spaceflight. It excludes early experimenters and legends of rocketry. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Wernher von Braun
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: VUR-nər von BROWN; German: [ˈvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊn]; 23 March 1912-16 June 1977) was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect.
Wikipedia: Sergei Korolev
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906], 14 January 1966) was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race.
Wikipedia: Robert H. Goddard
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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882, August 10, 1945) was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Wikipedia)
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Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (; Russian: Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Циолко́вский Russian pronunciation: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ɪdʊˈardəvʲɪtɕ tsɨɐlˈkofskʲɪj] ; 17 September [O.S.
Hermann Oberth (Wikipedia)
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Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894-28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent.
Edward Forman (Wikipedia)
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Edward Seymour Forman (December 3, 1912, February 12, 1973) was an American engineer and inventor known for his pioneering work in early rocketry in the United States.
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