"A brilliant scientist and rocket designer," Mr. Swift explained.

March 1 - Boris Chertok (died 2011), Russian rocket designer.

Following his release, he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet ICBM program.

Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet and Russian rocket designer.

Tu Shou'e 屠守鍔 (1917-), famous scientist and rocket designer.

A translation was soon circulating among Soviet rocket designers, and a condensed version made its way to Stalin himself.

I am no rocket designer, but there are a couple of reflections that we can all make and which seem completely convincing.

Think of the bureaucratic in-fighting, when the rocket designers and the aerospace industry get to hear about this!

He worked as a rocket designer between the 1930s and 1970s.

Autopilots on conventional planes could be "trained" and tuned by human pilots in flight; rocket designers had to find an alternative "training" technology.