Polish-born engineer who settled in the Soviet Union and became one of the twentieth century's foundational theorists of astronautics. His 1937 book Introduction to Cosmonautics worked out multi-impulse orbital transfer trajectories and other concepts that anticipated later spaceflight practice, and he is credited with coining the term cosmonautics itself.
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NationalityPolish, naturalized Soviet 1 Defining ContributionFoundational astronautics theorist credited with coining the term cosmonautics and working out early multi-impulse orbital transfer trajectories 1 Notable WorkIntroduction to Cosmonautics (1937) 1 Sources
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