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They include: gas rudders (graphite) for controlling a rocket's flight and changing the trajectory of its center of mass, the use of components of the fuel to cool the outer shell of the spacecraft (during re-entry to Earth) and the walls of the combustion chamber and nozzle, a pump system for feeding the fuel components, the optimal descent ...
Vladimir Sergeevich Syromyatnikov (January 7, 1933 - September 19, 2006) was a Russian engineer and designer in the former Soviet space program.His notable designs including the docking mechanisms for crewed spacecraft; it was his Androgynous Peripheral Attach System which, in the 1970s, linked the Soviet and American space capsules in the Apollo-Soyuz test flight.
Sergei Korolyov, the Father of the Soviet space program, inventor of the first intercontinental ballistic missile and the first space rocket (R-7 Semyorka), creator of the first satellite , supervisor of the first human spaceflight; Gleb Kotelnikov, inventor of knapsack parachute and drogue parachute
This list of Russian astronomers and astrophysicists includes the famous astronomers, astrophysicists and cosmologists from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Many other launch systems have discarded spent stages into space, but not all stages go into orbit or even reach space (by passing the Kármán line). For example, the Space Shuttle side boosters did not reach space, as the highest altitude reached during their flight was only about 220,000 feet (67 km).
As a prominent rocket scientist, he is a veteran of six space flights and ranks fourth to Oleg Kononenko, Gennady Padalka, and Yuri Malenchenko for the most time spent in space: a total of 803 days, 9 hours, and 39 minutes. [1] Krikalev was stranded on board the Mir during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. As the country that had sent him ...
NASA said Sunday that the unpiloted Progress 90 resupply mission had reached the orbiting laboratory’s Russian Poisk module Saturday after launching on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on Thursday ...
This list of Russian biologists includes the famous biologists from the Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, the Russian Empire and other predecessor states of Russia. Biologists of all specialities may be listed here, including ecologists , botanists , zoologists , paleontologists , biochemists , physiologists and others.