Historic figures in space exploration
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The following images were collected from Pioneers of Space Travel, an excellent resource for the development of collector's cards for requirements #2. The images were placed here as thumbnails to provide a resource for printing these pictures then cutting and pasting them onto the collector's cards.
 Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630) - mathematician who figured out the equations for orbiting planets & satellites and created the three fundamental laws of planetary motion |
 Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727) - scientist and mathematician, invented calculus |
 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857 – 1935) - school teacher who figured out all the basic equations for rocketry without ever launching a single rocket himself |
 Robert Goddard (1882-1945) - the father of modern rocketry |
 Hermann Oberth (1894-1989) - rocket scientist and author of "The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space" |
 Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977) - developed and launched the German V2 rocket, the first rocket capable of reaching space |
 Yuri Gagarin (1934 – 1968) - First Man Into Space |
 Alan Shepard, First American in Space – (1923 – 1998) |
 John Glenn (1921 – ) - First American in Orbit |
 Neil Armstrong (1930 – ) - First Man on the Moon |
 Buzz Aldrin - Second Man on the Moon – (1930 – ) |
