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Friedrich Zander
Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander was a Russian and Soviet pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight, of Baltic German descent. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space.
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science · Russian engineer (1887–1933) · inventor · engineer · military flight engineer · also Friedrich Zander, Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander, T︠S︡ander, F. A. (Fridrikh Arturovich), 1887-1933, Zander
Born 23 August 1887 · Died 28 March 1933 · Q327279
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1976).
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1933· 1 entry
Died 1933-03-28.
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1931· 1 entry
Zander was a founding member of GIRD (Group for the Study of Reactive Motion) in Moscow
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1926· 1 entry
Zander began work at the Central Design Bureau of Aviation, and in 1930 worked at the Central Institute of Aviation Motor Construction (TsIAM)
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1925· 1 entry
Zander presented a paper, "Problems of flight by jet propulsion: interplanetary flights," in which he suggested that a spacecraft traveling between two planets could be accelerated at the beginning of its trajectory and
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1924· 1 entry
Published it in the journal Tekhnika i Zhizn ("Technology and Life")
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1921· 1 entry
Presented his material to the Association of Inventors (AIIZ), where he met and discussed space travel with V
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1911· 1 entry
Published plans for a spacecraft built using combustible alloys of aluminum in its structure that would take off like a conventional aircraft and then burn its wings for fuel as it reached the upper atmosphere and no
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1908· 1 entry
Made notes about the problems of interplanetary travel in which he addressed issues such as life support and became the first to suggest growing plants in greenhouses aboard a spacecraft
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1898· 1 entry
For a seven-year program in which he was a top student
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-08-23.
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