Soviet rocketry commenced in 1921 with development of Solid-fuel rockets, which resulted in the development of the Katyusha rocket launcher. Rocket scientists...

developments. However, after 1947 the Soviets made very little use of German specialists and their influence on future Soviet rocketry was marginal. During WWII Nazi...

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Soviet investigations in rocketry began with...

headed a group of 170 German scientists who were forced to work for the Soviet rocketry program under Sergei Korolev. After returning to West Germany in December...

War. He was executed in 1941. Soviet engineer and inventor Ivan Kleymyonov who among the key founders of Soviet rocketry, chief of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory...

nonetheless kept around sixty NK-33 engines in Samara - the home of Soviet rocketry, and wanted to show these engines to visitors from Aerojet; after a...

overseen by Sergei Korolev, one of the leaders of the Soviet rocketry program. The first Soviet missile was the R-1, a duplicate of the V-2 manufactured...

member in Peenemünde and later head of the German collective in the Soviet rocketry program, set up the thesis that automatic space probes can get the...

interest in space flight was first aroused in October 1951 when the Soviet rocketry engineer Mikhail Tikhonravov published "Flight to the Moon" in the...

James T. Andrews, “Red cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry”, Issue 18 Centennial of Flight Series, p 114, Texas A&M University...