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- Hideo Itokawa (糸川 英夫, Itokawa Hideo, July 20, 1912 – February 21, 1999) was a pioneer of Japanese rocketry, popularly known as "Dr. Rocket," and described in the media as the father of Japan's space development.
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Hideo Itokawa (糸川 英夫, Itokawa Hideo, July 20, 1912 – February 21, 1999) was a pioneer of Japanese rocketry, popularly known as "Dr. Rocket," and described in the media as the father of Japan's space development.
Mar 19, 1999 · ONE OF Japan's most lovable eccentrics was a multi-talented aeronautical engineer, Hideo Itokawa. He was a leading figure in the research into and development of the Japanese space programme...
Nov 17, 2023 · Hideo Itokawa went to an Arabian project over 1968–70 to build huge undersea flying saucer-shaped oil storage depots in 1bn litre tanks. The aim was to give Japan a strategic oil reserve, a foresightful project granted the subsequent shortages of oil.
Mar 15, 2023 · The late Dr Hideo Itokawa, the father of Japanese rocketry, faced the greatest crisis of his life in the final months of World War II. He had worked on the design of fighter planes such as the Ki-43 Hayabusa .
Hideo Itokawa was born in Tokyo on July 17, 1912. When he was at primary school, his father took him to a park in Tokyo where an American pilot looped the loop, which deeply moved him. The sight determined the course of his life.
The asteroid was named for Hideo Itokawa (1912-1999), who is regarded as the father of Japanese rocketry. He was an aerospace engineer who initiated Japan's first launch tests of the solid rocket series called Pencil in 1955.
It was heading for Japan with the German Reich’s most secret rocket engine designs. Soon after, another Japanese submarine, under the command of Haruo Yoshikawa, left Lorient with more priceless rocket designs. Download to read the full chapter text.
