• 1947 the Soviets made very little use of German specialists and their influence on future Soviet rocketry was marginal. During WWII Nazi Germany developed...
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    Soviet rocketry commenced in 1921 with development of Solid-fuel rockets, which resulted in the development of the Katyusha rocket launcher. Rocket scientists...
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  • The Soviet space program served as an important marker of claims by the Soviet Union to its superpower status.: 1  Soviet investigations into rocketry began...
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    German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939...
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    Jamaica, on a specially built range. In the 1930s, the German Reichswehr (which in 1935 became the Wehrmacht) began to take an interest in rocketry. Artillery...
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    Helmut Gröttrup (category German expatriates in the Soviet Union)
    group of 170 German scientists who were forced to work for the Soviet rocketry program under Sergei Korolev. After returning to West Germany in December...
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    plans for German industry after World War II German influence on the Soviet space program Operation Osoaviakhim, USSR operation on German specialists...
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    Rocket (redirect from Dogleg (rocketry))
    occur until the 20th century, when rocketry was the enabling technology for the Space Age, including setting foot on the Moon. Rockets are now used for...
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    War. He was executed in 1941. Soviet engineer and inventor Ivan Kleymyonov who among the key founders of Soviet rocketry, chief of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory...
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    R-1 (missile) (category GermanySoviet Union relations)
    the Soviet Union to oversee rocketry operations in Germany, A-4s were assembled and studied. This prompted the 13 May 1946 decree of the Soviet Council...
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    Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (category Early rocketry)
    the founding father of modern rocketry and astronautics. His works later inspired Wernher von Braun and leading Soviet rocket engineers Sergei Korolev...
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    Wernher von Braun (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    member in Peenemünde and later head of the German collective in the Soviet rocketry program, set up the thesis that automatic space probes can get the...
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    Robert H. Goddard (category Early rocketry)
    military applications. Nevertheless, Goddard had some influence and was influenced by European rocketry pioneers like Hermann Oberth and his student Max Valier...
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    R-2 (missile) (category GermanySoviet Union relations)
    between the Soviet Union and China.  Soviet Union Soviet Army German influence on the Soviet space program R-1 (missile) Soviet rocketry Strategic Rocket...
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    Lithuania (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    pioneer of rocketry; his publication, the Artis Magnae Artilleriae, was a basic artillery manual throughout Europe, containing a large chapter on caliber...
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    pioneer in the field of rocketry and it is unsurprising that the Nazis were keen to recruit him to assist their efforts. The German Astronautical Society...
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    V-2 rocket (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Kapustin Yar. The German team was indirectly overseen by Sergei Korolev, one of the leaders of the Soviet rocketry program. The first Soviet missile was the...
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    Cold War playground equipment (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    original on 2018-10-25. Retrieved 2019-06-12. Macdonald, Fraser (2008-11-26). "Space and the Atom: On the Popular Geopolitics of Cold War Rocketry" (PDF)...
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  • German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group...
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    Erich Apel (category German expatriates in the Soviet Union)
    Army Research Center in Nazi Germany. After his return from the Soviet Union, where he had forcibly worked for rocketry development under the Operation...
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    worked as an explosives expert during the late 1940s, but his career in rocketry ended due to accusations of espionage and the increasing trend of McCarthyism...
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    Nikolai Kibalchich, pioneer of rocketry, author of an early propulsive device design Sergei Korolev, the father of the Soviet space program, inventor of the...
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    Sergei Korolev (category Communist Party of the Soviet Union members)
    engineers Maxime Faget Mstislav Keldysh Robert Ludvigovich Bartini Soviet rocketry Timeline of the Space Race Yuri Kondratyuk Mikhail Yangel Vladimir...
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    Mikoyan-Gurevich I-270 (category 1940s Soviet fighter aircraft)
    stabilizer surface atop the vertical tail, absent on the German design. Soviet tradition of rocketry, starting from the early work of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky...
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    Vitebsk (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    hockey player Kazimierz Siemienowicz (1600–1651), engineer, pioneer of rocketry Ivan Sollertinsky (1902–1944), polymath, critic, and musicologist Joseph...
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    Multiple rocket launcher (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    10-barreled 15 cm Nebelwerfer. Another German halftrack MRL system was inspired by the Russian BM-13. Keeping the Soviet 82 mm rocket caliber as well as the...
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    nations made use of German missile technology and scientists from their missile program. The advantages, in aviation and rocketry, required for delivery...
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    the Soviet Union. The ministry was the first in the Soviet Union to specifically focus on rocketry. Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service...
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    James T. Andrews, “Red cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry”, Issue 18 Centennial of Flight Series, p 114, Texas A&M University...
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    Baikonur Cosmodrome (category Soviet and Russian space program locations)
    Clancy's EndWar's Veterans Map Pack. Spaceflight portal Soviet Union portal Russia portal Rocketry portal Vostochny Cosmodrome Plesetsk Cosmodrome Svobodny...
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