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# alddc104 1975 New Year card from Glushko to cosmonaut Lazarev

1975 New Year greeting congratulations card sent from Valentin Glushko to cosmonaut Vasiliy Lazarev.Front side of card depicts view of the Earth over Moon surface (photo made from the board of Moon ship `Zond`). On inside part of this folding card reads:`Dear Vasiliy Grigoryevich Lazarev! Accept my New Year Congratulations! V.Glushko`. Signed. .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
 # alddc104            1975 New Year card from Glushko to cosmonaut Lazarev 1
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This product was added to our catalog on Friday 13 December, 2002.