Robert Esnault-Pelterie

Robert Esnault-Pelterie
Robert Esnault-Pelterie
Born(1881-11-08)8 November 1881
Paris, France
Died6 December 1957(1957-12-06) (aged 76)
Nice, France
Engineering career
Significant advance

Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (8 November 1881 – 6 December 1957) 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.

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