Died 1989-01-10.
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Valentin Glushko
Valentin Petrovich Glushko was a Soviet engineer who was program manager of the Soviet space program from 1974 until 1989.
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science · Soviet rocket engineer (1908–1989) · aerospace engineer · engineer · writer · politician · physicist · also Valentin Glushko, Valentin Petrovich Glushko, Valentín Petróvich Gluchko, Glushko
Born 20 August 1908 · Died 10 January 1989 · Q342397
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1989· 1 entry
1987· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Kazan (1987).
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1985· 2 entries
Won Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1985).
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“Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”
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1984· 2 entries
Won Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984).
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Awarded USSR State Prize (1984).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
Was named in Glushko's honour by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
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1975· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Lenin (1975).
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Won Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1975).
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“Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”
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1974· 1 entry
Following the six successful American Moon landings, premier Leonid Brezhnev decided to cancel the troubled Soviet program to send a man to the Moon
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1973· 1 entry
And the Kremlin decided to consolidate the entire Soviet space program into one organization headed by Glushko
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1971).
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1970· 2 entries
Won Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970).
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“For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1968).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded USSR State Prize (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
After the UR-500 booster began flying, the Chelomei Bureau offered a counterproposal to Korolev's N-1 in the UR-700, a Saturn V-class booster with nine F-1 sized engines powered by dinitrogen tetroxide and UDMH
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour (1961).
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Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1961).
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Lenin (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Lenin Prize (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Won "Hammer and Sickle" gold medal (1956).
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Awarded Order of Lenin (1956).
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1954· 1 entry
Began to design engines for the R-12 Dvina (SS-4 Sandal), which had been designed by Mikhail Yangel
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1948· 2 entries
Won Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948).
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“In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow”
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1946· 1 entry
Became the chief designer of his own bureau, the OKB 456, and remained at this position until 1974
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1945· 3 entries
Won Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1945).
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Awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945).
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“For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”
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1944· 1 entry
Sergei Korolev and Glushko designed the RD-1 kHz auxiliary rocket motor tested in a fast-climb La-7R for protection of the capital from high-altitude Luftwaffe attacks
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1941· 1 entry
Was placed in charge of a design bureau for liquid-fueled rocket engines
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1931· 1 entry
When GDL merged with the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD)
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1925· 1 entry
Studied at Saint Petersburg State University (1925).
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-08-20.
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