Engineers and scientists whose rocketry and spacecraft work built space transport as a recognized transport mode, from early liquid-fuel rocket experiments through the launch vehicles that reached orbit. Belongs here: rocket engineers and space program chief designers. Does not belong here: astronauts and space missions themselves, which belong to the Space atlas rather than Transport (Transport keeps the launch vehicle as a transport artifact and its engineers; the Space atlas owns spaceflight as a discipline).
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1. Wikipedia: Robert H. Goddard
WikipediaRobert H. Goddard, first liquid-fueled rocketQuote, Robert H. Goddard, first liquid-fueled rocket
Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fueled (gasoline and liquid oxygen) rocket on March 16, 1926, in Auburn, Massachusetts.
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