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Friedrich Tsander

Friedrich Tsander was born in Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire, in 1887.

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Gaston and Albert Tissandier

Gaston Tissandier pushed the limits of altitude in a balloon in 1875.

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Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and Gen. Ira Eaker

Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (center) escorts Gen. Ira Eaker (second from left) on an inspection tour of Ramitelli Airfield.

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Ground crews of the 332nd Fighter Group

Ground crews of the 332nd Fighter Group mount a drop tank on a P-51.

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Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD)

The first Soviet liquid-fuel rocket, GIRD-X in 1933. At far left is Sergei P. Korolev, later chief designer of the Soviet space program.

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Guion Bluford

Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first African American to fly in the Space Shuttle Program.

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Harry Guggenheim, Goddard, and Lindbergh at Rocket Launch Tower

Harry Guggenheim, Robert Goddard, and Charles Lindbergh (second, third, and fourth from left), Roswell, New Mexico, September 23, 1935.

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Hermann "Noordung" Potočnik

Hermann "Noordung" Potočnik, born in Pola, Austria-Hungary, in 1892, published The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket Motor in 1928–29.

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Hermann Ganswindt

Ganswindt was perhaps the earliest person to propose a feasible means of spaceflight in print, but he was largely forgotten until the 1920s.

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Hermann Julius Oberth

Hermann Julius Oberth was born in Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary, in 1894. In 1923 he published The Rocket into Interplanetary Space.

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