OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message . ..
...This one'll no doubt raise some eyebrows, especially some of the
ties, such as positions 25, 67 and 71, or why some were ranked rather
lower than their contributions deserved, especially Tsiolkovsky. And
lord knows what Buzz will say about position 9 vs position 11 and/or
13.

Obviously Avleak is still part of the problem not the solution. Who
has pointed out the error in our wayward socialist space programs?
Robert Truax has! He was pushing for "a rocket for the rest of us"
decades before anyone else, and he actually built rockets. He was not
hung up on reusability like NASA is or was.

I think Goddard should be on top of that list because he actually
built the first liquid fueled rocket. Thinking about it just isn't as
important as actually doing something, so davinci and the russian
should go to the bottom of the list. Thinking is 1% of the work. 99%
of the work is actually doing something. That is why Goddard should be
ahead of Von Braun, because he learned from Goddard.