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were proposed. For fuel supply in 1931-1932 fuel pumps operating from combustion chamber gases were developed. In 1933 a centrifugal turbopump unit for a rocket engine with a thrust of 3000 N was developed. A total of 100 bench tests of liquid-propellant rockets were conducted using various types of
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The work on the creation of engines under the leadership of Glushko was carried out by employees of the ERD and liquid-propellant engine section, including the active involvement of A. L. Maly, V. I. Serov, E. N. Kuzmin, I. I. Kulagin, E. S. Petrov, P. I. Minaev, B. A. Kutkin, V. P. Yukov,
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on a non-volatile solvent for solid propellant rockets. The first test-firing of a solid fuel rocket was carried out in March 1928, which flew for about 1,300 meters In 1931 the world's first successful use of rockets to assist
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Experimental liquid propellant rockets were constructed, the first two rockets with a planned lifting height of 2–4 km were manufactured and testing was continued by RNII.
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In 1966, the Commission of the USSR Academy of Sciences on Lunar Names assigned craters on the far side of the Moon names in honor of the following workers of the GDL;
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is a memorial museum telling about the beginning of the domestic space engine industry, including the history of GDL. The museum is located in the
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rocket engine was created. This early work by GDL has been steadily carried on and electric rocket engines were used in the 1960s onboard the
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trainer, which achieved about one hundred successful assisted takeoffs. Successful assisted takeoffs were also achieved on the
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were first proposed as an oxidizing agent. As a result of experiments, by the end of 1933, a high-boiling fuel from
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The building of the Main Admiralty in Leningrad, where in the 1930s the Gas Dynamics Laboratory was located
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aircraft armed with six launchers successfully took place. RNII then modified these rockets for the famous
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In July 1928, was renamed the Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL) of the Military Scientific Committee under the
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and nitric acid was selected as the most convenient in operation and industrial production. In
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fuel, both low and high-boiling and thrust up to 300 kg was achieved.
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Challenge to Apollo : the Soviet Union and the space race, 1945-1974
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Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology named after V. P. Glushko
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and RNII were assigned to crater chains on the far side of the Moon.
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Development of Rocket Engineering in the USSR. Ch. 1—2. — M., 1968;
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in Moscow as the "Laboratory for the development of inventions by
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RLA-1 rocket in the Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocketry (in the
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there are stands for testing ERD and liquid-propellant engines.
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self-igniting combustible and chemical ignition of fuel with
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by early 1933 approximately 200 personnel were working for GDL.
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aircraft. Further developments in the early 1930s were led by
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Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Rocket engines GDL - OKB;
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V. P. Glushko Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology
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First rocket research and development organization in the
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Cosmonautics: A Small Encyclopedia. — 2nd ed. — M., 1970.
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Developments of Rocketry and Space Technology in the USSR
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Brief chronology of rocket engine building in the USSR
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Location of the laboratory in Leningrad in the 1930s
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Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR
Nikolai Tikhomirov
1921
Solid-propellant rockets
Liquid-propellant rockets
Valentin Glushko
USSR
Moscow
Leningrad
a series
Soviet space program
Soviet crewed lunar programs
Luna program
Human spaceflight programs
Vostok
Voskhod
Soyuz
Salyut
Apollo–Soyuz
Mir
Zond
N1-L3
TMK
Spiral
Almaz
TKS
Energia
Buran
Space probes

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