Morgan was considered a rocketry pioneer as she was the only female analyst (engineer) employed by NAA in Downey, California.

For his involvement in the Society, Manning is recognized by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum as an early rocketry pioneer.

In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Musk was ranked as the No. 10 (tied with rocketry pioneer and scientist Wernher von Braun) most popular space hero.

She said that Robert Goddard, the American rocketry pioneer, had proposed-in a paper called "The Last Migration"-that Triton could be used as an outfitting and launching post for interstellar expeditions.

The International Astronomical Union honoured the rocketry pioneer by naming a crater on the moon Kibal'chich.

Kibal'chich (crater), The International Astronomical Union honoured the rocketry pioneer named after Nikolai Kibalchich.

Died: Friedrich Zander, 45, Latvian-born Soviet rocketry pioneer; and Ida Siddons, 76, US entertainer and comedienne, known in the 1890s as the "Queen of Burlesque".

Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees (1909-April 2, 1998) was a German-American (by becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States) rocketry pioneer and the second director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

Max Valier (February 9, 1895 - May 17, 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer.