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Soviet Space Program Personnel: Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Valentin Glushko, Vladimir Chelomey, Kerim Kerimov

Soviet Space Program Personnel: Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Valentin Glushko, Vladimir Chelomey, Kerim Kerimov


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Valentin Glushko, Vladimir Chelomey, Kerim Kerimov, Sergey Afanasyev, Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov, Guy Severin, John Gridunov, Mikhail Yangel, Oleg Gazenko, Boris Chertok, Alexander Kemurdzhian, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Vasily Mishin, Leonid I. Sedov, Nikolay Pilyugin, Valentin Rumyantsev, Vladimir Syromyatnikov, Vladimir Barmin. Excerpt: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Russian: Sergej Pavlovi Korolev, also transliterated as Sergey Korolyov; born 12 January 1907 in Zhytomyr, Ukraine; died 14 January 1966 in Moscow, Russia) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s. He is considered by many as the father of practical astronautics. Although Korolev was trained as an aircraft designer, his greatest strengths proved to be in design integration, organization and strategic planning. Arrested for alleged mismanagement of funds (he spent the money on yet unsuccessful experiments with rocket devices), he was imprisoned in 1938 for almost six years, including some months in a Kolyma labour camp. Following his release, he became a recognized rocket designer and a key figure in the development of the Soviet ICBM program. He was then appointed to lead the Soviet space program, made Member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, overseeing the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok projects. By the time he died unexpectedly in 1966, his plans to compete with the United States to be the first nation to land a man on the Moon had begun to be implemented. Before his death he was often referred to only as "Chief Designer," because his name and his pivotal role in the Soviet space program had been held to be a state secret by the Politburo. Only many years later was he publicly acknowl...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156901151
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156901154
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Sergei Korolev, Nikolai Kamanin, Dmitry Okhotsimsky, Valentin Glushko, Vladimir Chelomey, Kerim Kerimov
  • Width: 189 mm


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