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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

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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

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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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Kelly Johnson

Kelly Johnson was a pioneering American engineer instrumental in shaping modern aviation and aerospace technology. He es...

Modern Aviation Aerospace Engineer Lockheed

9.06 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

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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

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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

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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

8.91 Great

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Alexander Yakovlev

Alexander Yakovlev was a Soviet aircraft designer and engineer who established the Yakovlev design bureau, also known as...

Russia Designer Aerospace 20TH Century

8.79 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

8.74 Great

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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

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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

8.67 Great

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Robert H. Widmer

Robert H. Widmer was an American aeronautical engineer whose career included senior design work at Convair and General D...

Aircraft Modern American Aerospace

8.64 Great

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Mary G. Ross

Mary G. Ross was a Cherokee aerospace engineer and mathematician who became the first known Native American woman in the...

Aerospace Native American Lockheed Skunk Works

7.14 Good