A Soviet engineer who was the leading designer of rocket engines for the Soviet space program from the 1930s onward and served as its overall program manager from 1974 until his death in 1989.
Facts
Defining ContributionLeading designer of Soviet rocket engines and later director of the entire Soviet space program during the Space Race. 1 Connections
Associated With
Glushko directed the Soviet space program until his death in 1989; Roscosmos was not established until 1992. The edge names the modern successor agency rather than a defunct Soviet body with no live entity here.
Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Additional Source Valentin Glushko (Wikipedia)Valentin Glushko, lead section
In the Other Atlases
Nationality
Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.
Sources
1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia Foundation
2. Valentin Glushko (Wikipedia)
Valentin Glushko, lead section
Valentin Petrovich Glushko ... was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
- Valentin Glushko, infobox
Lead and biography, birth date
was born on 2 September 1908
In Group: Soviet and Russian Spacecraft Designers, Lead sentence
Valentin Petrovich Glushko (Russian: Валентин Петрович Глушко; Ukrainian: Валентин Петрович Глушко, romanized: Valentyn Petrovych Hlushko; 2 September 1908-10 January 1989) was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.