Frank Malina
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Frank Joseph Malina was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, known for his pioneering work in early rocketry.
Malina, c. 1950
Malina (second from right) with Theodore von Kármán during his work on JATO in 1941
Seated left to right: Rudolph Schott, Apollo Milton Olin Smith, Frank Malina (white shirt, dark pants), Ed Forman and Jack Parsons (right, foreground). Nov. 15, 1936
Malina and his fifth WAC Corporal, October 11, 1945
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
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Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He is referred to as being one of the founders of modern rocketry and astronautics, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Germans Hermann Oberth, Wernher Von Braun and the American Robert H. Goddard.
Esnault-Pelterie airplane 1908.
Avion Esnault-Pelterie, 1908
The wing structure of the R.E.P Type D Monoplane, 1911.