Luigi Broglio
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Luigi Broglio (11 November 1911 – 14 January 2001),[1] was an Italian aerospace engineer, airforce lieutenant colonel and dean of the school of aeronautical engineering at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Known as "the Italian von Braun",[2] he is best known as the architect of the San Marco programme.
The facility he conceived, originally the San Marco Equatorial Range, is now named in his honour as well as the asteroid 18542 Broglio.[3][4]