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 Robert A.C. Esnault-Pelterie (1881-1957) French engineer and inventor, pioneer of aviation (constructed the first monoplane and radial engine), and of rocketry and astronautics, member of the French Academy. His first dissertation on space flight with the help of rockets was written in 1912. He was a co-founder of the "REP-Hirsch" Astronautical Prize, awarded, among others, to Hermann Oberth and Ary Szternfeld. In 1930 he published his fundamental work "L'Astronautique", and in 1935 its sequel "L'Astronautique Complément". Constructed many experimental rocket engines for liquid fuel, including cryogenic fuels (liquid oxygen). He also suggested an idea of long-range ballistic missiles which gained him a support of French Army for his rocket experiments. A crater (79 km diameter) on the back side of the Moon ![[PL only]](smpl.gif){kind=small} |
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Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) American physicist and inventor, pioneer of rocket technology, especially fluid fuel rockets. Problems of construction and use of rockets occupied him from 1907. He received 214 patents for his inventions in this field (including 131 posthumously) - e.g., already in 1914 he patented the idea of multistage rockets. In 1919 he published a dissertation "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes", and in 1936 a book "Liquid-propellant Rocket Development". In 1926 he officially demonstrated the world's first flight of a liquid fuel rocket (propelled by gasoline and liquid oxygen). A crater (89 km diameter) on the rim of the near side of the Moon [See also Goddard's biograhical note and extensive description of his works and designs at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center website.] |
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Hermann Oberth (1894-1989) Austrian-German physicist and inventor (born in Transylvania, currently part of Romania), pioneer of rocketry and visionary of space exploration. The problems of construction and use of rockets were tackled by him first in 1922, in his attempted doctoral thesis, rejected as "too fantastic". In 1923 he published it under the title "Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen" ("The Rocket into Interplanetary Spaces"), and in 1929 he published a book "Die Wege zur Raumschiffahrt" ("Travel into Space"). In the thirties, Wehrner von Braun became his assistant, and with him he later collaborated for some time on the construction of the German ballistic missile A4/V-2, and after the war - for some time also in the U.S.A. In 1954, in the book "Menschen im Weltraum" ("Men in Space") he defined the goal of space exploration in these words: "To make available for life every place where life is possible, to make habitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and to give purpose to any living world". Later yet he published several books on the philosophy and future of mankind. A crater (60 km diameter) on the back side of the Moon [More extensive biography can be found on the website of the Hermann Oberth Space Museum in Feucht near Nuremberg.] |
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