• Thumbnail for Mikhail Tikhonravov
    Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov (July 29, 1900 – March 3, 1974) was a Soviet engineer who was a pioneer of spacecraft design and rocketry. Mikhail Tikhonravov...
    5 KB (620 words) - 21:18, 26 May 2024
  • Tikhonravov may refer to: Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900–1974), Soviet aerospace engineer and scientist Nikolai Tikhonravov (1832–1893), Russian philologist...
    320 bytes (66 words) - 00:52, 7 September 2017
  • Thumbnail for Sergei Korolev
    centers for rocket development in the USSR. While there, he met Mikhail Tikhonravov, a glider pilot and aerospace engineer who would later work under...
    73 KB (9,434 words) - 09:19, 13 August 2024
  • Zander, Korolev and other pioneers such as the Russian engineers Mikhail Tikhonravov, Leonid Dushkin, Vladimir Vetchinkin and Yuriy Pobedonostsev worked...
    63 KB (7,152 words) - 10:30, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soviet rocketry
    upper atmosphere, carrying flares, and atmospheric sounding. Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov, who would later supervise the design of Sputnik I and the...
    55 KB (7,492 words) - 09:55, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tikhonravov (crater)
    Tikhonravov is a large, eroded crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars. It is 344 kilometres (214 mi) in diameter and was named after Mikhail Tikhonravov...
    4 KB (443 words) - 08:01, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mikhail Yangel
    Mikhail Kuzmich Yangel (Russian: Михаил Кузьмич Янгель; 7 November 1911 – 25 October 1971), was a Soviet engineer born in Irkutsk who was the leading...
    7 KB (573 words) - 20:51, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sputnik 3
    experiments and their telemetry system. Despite earlier work done by Mikhail Tikhonravov, much of the satellite's design had little precedent. The creation...
    13 KB (1,350 words) - 19:57, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nikolai Tikhonravov
    Nikolai Savvich Tikhonravov (Russian: Никола́й Са́ввич Тихонра́вов; 15 October 1832 – 9 December 1893) was a Russian philologist and historian of Russian...
    4 KB (293 words) - 04:11, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for R-7 Semyorka
    missile, also known as a “rocket packet”, was first proposed by Mikhail Tikhonravov at NII-4 in 1947. Korolev became aware of this proposal in 1948 and...
    18 KB (1,847 words) - 15:19, 5 August 2024