Глушко Валентин Петрович
Valentin Petrovich Glushko (02.09.1908, Odesa - 10.01.1989, Moskva) a Soviet engineer, and the principal Soviet designer of rocket engines during the Soviet/American Space Race.
General Designer of Space Technology V.P. Glushko
Valentin P. Glushko was born in Odessa, September 2, 1908. In the 1919-1924 he studied at a vocational technical school. At the same time in 1920-1922 he studied at the Conservatoire to play a violin.
Rocket engines V.P. Glushko
V.P. Glushko - the founder of the Soviet liquid rocket engines. But his first was electro-jet engine (ERE). The power in it arises due to instantaneous evaporation of thin strips of metal by heating them with electric currents.