Comments on: An update on China’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-chinas-change-4-lunar-lander/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 02:24:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Col Beausabre https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/an-update-on-chinas-change-4-lunar-lander/#comment-1060245 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 02:24:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=54089#comment-1060245 Theodore Van Karman was a distinguished scientist who worked at GALCIT and was a founder of JPL

“(11 May 1881 – 6 May 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century. According to György Marx he was one of The Martians.”

He also has a crater on Mars named for him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n

“The Martians”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)

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