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Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was a highly respected aerospace engineer instrumental in the success of the American space program. His...

Historical Aviator Apollo Astronaut

10.0 Brilliant

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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924–2019) was an American aerospace engineer who played a central role in the early United St...

Modern American Aerospace Nasa

9.3 Excellent

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John Houbolt

John Houbolt was an American aerospace engineer who championed the concept of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) during the ea...

Modern American Aerospace Apollo

9.3 Excellent

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Max Faget

Maxime Faget was an aerospace engineer born in British Honduras, now Belize, who became an American citizen and worked f...

American Aerospace Historical Nasa

9.3 Excellent

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Robert Gilruth

Robert Gilruth was a pioneering American aerospace engineer instrumental in early human spaceflight programs. His leader...

American Aerospace Nasa Human Spaceflight

9.2 Excellent

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George Low

George Low was an Austrian-born American aerospace engineer and NASA manager. He served as the manager of the Apollo Spa...

Modern Aerospace Nasa Spaceflight

9.1 Excellent

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Mikhail Mil

Mikhail Mil was a Soviet aircraft and helicopter designer who established the Mil design bureau in 1947, the organizatio...

Aerospace Historical Aviation Soviet

9.1 Excellent

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Marcel Dassault

Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, was a French aircraft designer and industrialist who founded the company that became...

French Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.9 Great

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Alexei Isayev

Alexei Mikhailovich Isayev was a Soviet rocket engineer who specialized in liquid-propellant propulsion. In 1944 he form...

Aerospace Historical Soviet Rocketry

8.9 Great

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Chris Kraft

Chris Kraft was a pivotal American aerospace engineer instrumental in shaping early spaceflight operations. He developed...

American Aerospace Nasa Mission Control

8.8 Great

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Yvonne C. Brill

Yvonne C. Brill was a Canadian-American aerospace engineer known for developing hydrazine-fueled resistojet propulsion....

Aerospace Historical Rocketry Canadian American

8.7 Great

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Donald Douglas

Donald Wills Douglas was an American aircraft designer, engineer, and industrialist who founded the Douglas Aircraft Com...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.7 Great

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Gene Kranz

Eugene "Gene" Kranz is an American aerospace engineer who served as a NASA flight director during the Gemini and Apollo...

Aerospace Nasa Apollo Mission Control

8.5 Great

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Joseph-Armand Bombardier

Joseph-Armand Bombardier was a Canadian inventor and mechanical engineer who developed the first successful snowmobile i...

Inventor Canadian Historical Snowmobile

8.4 Great

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John J. Montgomery

John J. Montgomery was an American engineer and aviation pioneer who designed and flew experimental gliders in Californi...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.4 Great

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William Boeing

William E. Boeing was an American businessman and aviation pioneer. In 1916 he founded Pacific Aero Products, the aircra...

American Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.3 Great

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Elsie MacGill

Elsie MacGill was a pioneering Canadian aeronautical engineer who became the first woman in the world to earn a master's...

Aircraft Canadian Aerospace Women

8.0 Great

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Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace and electrical engineer who worked on the Abort Guidance System for the Apol...

Modern American Aerospace Electrical

8.0 Great

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Judith Resnik

Judith Resnik was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut selected for the agency's astronaut corps in 1978....

Aerospace Electrical Nasa Astronaut

7.4 Good

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Kalpana Chawla

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut, first woman of Indian origin in space on STS-87...

Aerospace Indian Nasa Astronaut

7.3 Good