Dr Ivan Nochev: The Inventor Who Sent the Americans to the Moon

In 1942, Dr Ivan Nochev went to Germany to study, but returned to Bulgaria because of the fighting. He continued his education in Prague and Vienna. In 1951, he left for Canada, where he worked for an aviation company. He then moved to the United States, where he worked for General Dynamics Corporation. In 1969, the rockets he designed successfully landed on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. He received high honours from the United States Congress for his services to NASA. He died in San Diego, California, in 1991.