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# alddc103 Glushko New Years 1974 card sent to cosmonaut Lazarev

1974 New Year Congratulation card sent from founder of Soviet rocketery Valentin Glushko to cosmonaut Vasiliy Lazarev.Card signed by Glushko as well next to text :`Dear Vasiliy Grigoryevich Lazarev! Please accept from my heart best wishes in New Year! V.Glushko` In front side of card depicted `Gelioraketoplane` (1928-1929)- space ship with electric rocket engines powered by solar energy.This is a famous development of GDL headed by Glushko..Valentin Pavlovich Glushko was one of the last survivors of the group prominent pioneers of the Soviet rocket programme: almost all the main missile and space-launcher motors used to date were designed and developed under his leadership.In 1929 Glushko began work at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL).Here he created the First Soviet liquid-fuel rocket motor (1930-1931).For most of the 30-s he headed GDL, now the department of Moscow Rocket Propulsion Institute, and developed a series of engines.After war Glushko headed the country`s principal liquid-propellant rocket engine design organization and in 1974 was appointed head and general designer of the Korolev`s design bureau.This leading organization of the Soviet space programme leter became the scientific- production association `Energia`.Glushko was its general director until his death in 1988. Contact for price
 # alddc103            Glushko New Years 1974 card sent to cosmonaut Lazarev 1
 # alddc103            Glushko New Years 1974 card sent to cosmonaut Lazarev 2

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 December, 2002.