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