Von Kármán suggested that the most reasonable edge of space would be near where orbital forces exceed aerodynamic ones. And, opting for a nice, round altitude, he decided that 100 kilometers (62 ...

The line is named for Theodore von Kármán, an engineer and physicist who was born in Hungary in 1881. He became a prominent expert in rockets during World War II, and co-founded the United ...

They were named after Theodore Von Karman, a co-founder of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, regarded by many as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century.

Where does Earth end and space start? The simple question doesn't have a simple answer. Is it the Karman line, 100km above Earth?

Theodore von Karman at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA, 1950. (Image credit: Heritage Space/Heritage Images via Getty Images) ...

Space pioneers Dr. William H. Pickering, Dr. Theodore von Karman, and Dr. Frank J. Malina posing for a photo in 1960. Gado via Getty Images. It began with David Hannah, ...

In a study published in Nature Communications, collaborating physicists from Singapore and the UK have reported an optical analog of the Kármán vortex street (KVS). This optical KVS pulse ...

It took us only a short while longer to get to the moon — a Russian spacecraft hit the moon in 1959 — and soon after, humans began sending probes past the moon into deep space, exploring the ...

In the first-level restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, high above the rooftops of Paris, 200 guests gathered last week to honor a hero of aviation, Dr. Theodore von Karman, who had reached his 75th ...

The most widely accepted boundary between Earth and space is the Karman line, named after the Hungarian physicist Theodore ...

The United States has its sights set on absorbing the Nazi V-2 missile program, thanks to the wartime research of German facilities by JPL scientists Theodore von Karman and Tsien Hsue-Shen.