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Louis William Butterworth
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Louis William Butterworth (1948. 17 July 17 in Casper, Wyoming - ) is an American engineer and astronaut. He gained a degree in mechanical engineering in 1970 at the University of Utah. In 1972, he worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an engineer, and joined the astronaut training program...
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Kurt Wahmke (1904 - 1934)
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Kurt Wahmke (2 March 1904 - 16 July 1934 in Kummersdorf) was a German rocket pioneer. Kurt Wahmke achieved his doctorate in the laboratory of Erich Schumann. The title of his research dissertation was on the outflow of gases through cylindrical nozzles, the work was accepted in 1933 by Schumann and A...
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Alexey Leonov
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Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov (born 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major General who, on 18 March 1965, became the first human to conduct a space walk. Read more
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Rudolf Karl Hans Schlidt (1914-2012)
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Von Braun 'Paperclip' team member Rudolf Schlidt dies in Huntsville Rudolf Schlidt, one of the last surviving members of Wernher von Braun's original "Paperclip" rocket team, has died in Huntsville. Schlidt, who died Friday, was 98. Schlidt was a guided missile expert who was with von...
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Pedro Paulet (1874 - 1945)
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Pedro Paulet Mostajo (July 2, 1874 in Arequipa, Peru = 1945 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Peruvian scientist who allegedly in 1895 was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine and, in 1900, the first person to build a modern rocket propulsion system. Read more
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Margherita Hack
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Margherita Hack (12 June 1922 - 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour. Read more
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Alan Guth
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Alan Harvey Guth (born February 27, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory (and how particle theory is applicable to the early universe). Currently serving as Victor Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Insti...
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Lady Godiva
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Lady Godiva (fl. 1040-1080), was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants. Lady Godiva was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. Her name oc...
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Wubbo Ockels
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Wubbo Johannes Ockels (born March 28, 1946) is a Dutch physicist and a former astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA). Read more
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Katherine Stinson (1891 - 1977)
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Katherine Stinson (14 February 1891, in Fort Payne, Alabama July 8, 1977, in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an early female flier. Read more Spoiler
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Vance D. Brand
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Dr. Josef Allen Hynek (1910 - 1986)
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Dr. Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 - April 27, 1986) was a United States astronomer, professor, and ufologist.[1] He is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive names: Project Sign (1947 -...
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Scott Carpenter
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Malcolm Scott Carpenter (born May 1, 1925) is an American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959. Read more
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Michael Smith (1945-1986)
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. Read more
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