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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

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Modern American Aerospace Nasa

9.31 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

9.31 Excellent

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A.N. Tupolev

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Russia Designer Aerospace 20TH Century

9.27 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

9.26 Excellent

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Ross Brawn

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Automotive Contemporary Mechanical Motorsport

9.18 Excellent

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Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan

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Modern American Aerospace Experimental

9.16 Excellent

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Satish Dhawan

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Modern Aerospace Indian Fluid Dynamics

9.14 Excellent

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Louis Pouzin

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Computer French Contemporary Networking

9.12 Excellent

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John Barnard

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9.12 Excellent

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Sergei Ilyushin

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9.12 Excellent

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Rory Byrne

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9.08 Excellent

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George Low

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Modern Aerospace Nasa Spaceflight

9.06 Excellent

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Alexei Isayev

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Aerospace Historical Soviet Rocketry

8.92 Great

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Yvonne C. Brill

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Aerospace Historical Rocketry Canadian American

8.74 Great

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Qian Xuesen

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China Aerospace Systems Rocketry

8.57 Great

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Tu Shou'e

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Modern Aerospace Chinese Spaceflight

8.54 Great

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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India Aerospace Rocketry Missiles

8.03 Great

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Robert Truax

Robert Truax was an American rocket engineer and a prominent figure in the development of early United States rocketry....

Modern American Aerospace Naval

7.72 Good

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Robert Esnault-Pelterie

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French Aerospace Aviation Rocketry

7.10 Good

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Richard Pearse

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New Zealand Inventor Aerospace 19TH Century

6.92 Fair