Robert Esnault-Pelterie

Pioneering French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist (1881–1957)

  • Fame48.4
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia1.1K
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Lived 1881–1957, aged 76France
  • Wikipedia
    18 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1881–1957
    Aged 76
  • Awards
    4
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Updated 2026-08-12

Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie 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 Chinese Qian Xuesen, the Germans Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun and the American Robert H. Goddard.

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