Home›Categories›PioneersCategoriesPioneersCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextSpace and Astronomy Atlas. "Pioneers." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/categories/pioneers.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextSpace and Astronomy Atlas. (n.d.). Pioneers. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/categories/pioneersCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{spaceandastronomyatlas-pioneers, author = {Space and Astronomy Atlas}, title = {Pioneers}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/categories/pioneers}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXReference and ClassificationDevelopingThe theorists, engineers and computing figures whose work made spaceflight possible, without themselves having flown.Cross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Cross-Tradition ConnectionsContainsChristopher Kraft, Pioneers Well-attested Dorothy Vaughan, Pioneers Well-attested Gene Kranz, Pioneers Well-attested George Mueller, Pioneers Well-attested Hermann Oberth, Pioneers Well-attested James Van Allen, Pioneers Well-attested James Webb, Pioneers Well-attested Johannes Kepler, Pioneers Well-attested John Houbolt, Pioneers Well-attested Katherine Johnson, Pioneers Well-attested Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Pioneers Well-attested Margaret Hamilton, Pioneers Well-attested Mary Golda Ross, Pioneers Well-attested Mary Jackson, Pioneers Well-attested Maxime Faget, Pioneers Well-attested Poppy Northcutt, Pioneers Well-attested Qian Xuesen, Pioneers Well-attested Robert Goddard, Pioneers Well-attested Sergei Korolev, Pioneers Well-attested Valentin Glushko, Pioneers Well-attested Wernher von Braun, Pioneers Well-attested Yuri Kondratyuk, Pioneers Well-attested SourcesEncyclopedia Britannica: Space ExplorationEncyclopedia Britannica, Inc.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year