Max Valier
Applied rockets to automobiles and sleds. Max Valier was born on February 9, 1895, in Bozen, Austria-Hungary, now Bolzano Italy. He enrolled in the University of Innsbruck in 1913 and […]
Wilhelm T. Unge
Inventor of solid propellant rocket fuels. Wilhelm Theodor Unge was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1845. He began his military career in 1866, following graduation from college as an engineer. […]
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
The ‘Father of Astronautics and Rocket Dynamics.’ Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, scientist, inventor, and pioneer in rocket and space research, was born on September 17, 1857, in the village of Izhevskoye, […]
Fridrikh A. Tsander
Built the first liquid propellant rocket motor in the Soviet Union. Fridrikh Tsander (or Tzander) was born on August 23, 1887, to a prosperous German-speaking family in Riga, Latvia, then […]
Clyde W. Tombaugh
Discovered the dwarf planet Pluto, hundreds of variable stars and asteroids, and two comets. Clyde William Tombaugh was born in Streator, Illinois on February 4, 1906. He grew up on […]
Vladimir G. Titov
Vladimir Titov was born on January 1, 1947, in Sretensk, in the Chita Region of Russia. He graduated from secondary school in 1965, from the Higher Air Force College in […]
Mikhail K. Tikhonravov
The chief theoretician of the Soviet space program. Mikhail Klavdiyevich Tikhonravov was born on July 29, 1900. After graduating from the Zhukovskiy Air Force Academy in 1925, he began a […]
Walter Thiel
Primary desgner of the V-2 rocket engine
Norman E. Thagard M.D.
Norman Thagard was born on July 3, 1943, in Marianna, Florida, but considers Jacksonville, Florida his hometown. Thagard told his high school classmates that he wanted to be a medical […]
Valentina V. Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born on March 6, 1937, in the village of Maslennikovo, near Yaroslavl in western Russia. Her father, a tractor driver before enlisting in the Red Army, […]