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    Soviet rocketry commenced in 1921 with development of Solid-fuel rockets, which resulted in the development of the Katyusha rocket launcher. Rocket scientists...
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  • 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...
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    Helmut Gröttrup (category Soviet spaceflight pioneers)
    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...
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  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Soviet investigations in rocketry began with...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • with a history of the involvement of German rocket specialists in Soviet rocketry. Russia: The Real Moon Landing Hoax about the Space Race. Russia: What...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • RS-82 (rocket family) (category World War II weapons of the Soviet Union)
    of aircraft weapons RP-3 – British 3 inch rocket, known as "60lb" Soviet rocketry "Russian Rocket Projectiles – WWII". Weapons and Warfare. Retrieved...
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