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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

9.31 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

3

A.N. Tupolev

Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer who founded the Tupolev design bure...

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

5

Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan

Elbert L. Rutan, known as Burt Rutan, is an American aerospace engineer and aircraft designer associated with unconventi...

Modern American Aerospace Experimental

9.16 Excellent

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Satish Dhawan

Satish Dhawan (1920–2002) was an Indian aerospace engineer who served as the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organ...

Modern Aerospace Indian Fluid Dynamics

9.14 Excellent

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Sergei Ilyushin

Sergei Ilyushin was a Soviet aircraft designer and the founder of the Ilyushin design bureau. His work included the Il-2...

Russia Designer Aerospace 20TH Century

9.12 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

9.07 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

9.06 Excellent

10

Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute was a French-American civil engineer and aviation researcher who became an important figure in the ninete...

Aerospace 19TH Century 20TH Century Aviation

8.96 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

8.92 Great

12

Theodore von Kármán

Theodore von Kármán was a prominent Hungarian-American engineer whose work fundamentally shaped the field of aerospace....

Hungarian Aerospace Jpl Aerodynamics

8.91 Great

13

Marcel Dassault

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

French Aerospace Historical Aviation

8.91 Great

14

Yvonne C. Brill

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

Aerospace Historical Rocketry Canadian American

8.74 Great

15

Guo Yonghuai

Guo Yonghuai (1909–1968) was a prominent Chinese aerodynamicist and a founding figure in the country's aerospace and nuc...

Modern Research Aerospace Chinese

8.72 Great

16

Qian Xuesen

Qian Xuesen was a pioneering Chinese engineer instrumental in developing the nation’s aerospace capabilities. His work d...

China Aerospace Systems Rocketry

8.57 Great

17

Peter Beck

Peter Beck is a New Zealand aerospace engineer and the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, which he established i...

Contemporary New Zealand Aerospace Spaceflight

8.48 Great

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was a highly influential Indian aerospace engineer instrumental in developing the nation’s ballisti...

India Aerospace Rocketry Missiles

8.03 Great

19

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

Robert Esnault-Pelterie was a pioneering French aircraft designer and rocket propulsion theorist. In 1907, he designed t...

French Aerospace Aviation Rocketry

7.10 Good