Konstantin Dawidowitsch Buschujew

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Konstantin Davidovich Buschujew ( Russian Константин Давыдович Бушуев ; born May 10 . Jul / 23. May  1914 greg. In sealed Erten , Rajon Mosalsk , Kaluga oblast ; † 26. October 1978 ) was a Soviet aerospace engineer .

Buschuyev, the son of a teacher, first worked in a smelter in an aircraft factory before going to the State Aviation Institute in Moscow. He completed this in 1941 as an aircraft construction engineer. He then worked for a short time on the BI-1 , the first Soviet rocket plane.

In 1945, Buschujew moved to the OKB-1 headed by Sergei Koroljow . There he participated in the design of missiles and became deputy head in 1954. In this position he developed the spaceships Vostok and Soyuz as well as the first Salyut space stations. He also worked on the Soviet space probes to the moon and the planets Venus and Mars.

In the 1970s he was the Soviet director of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project , the meeting between Soviets and Americans in space. He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences .

He was honored as a hero of socialist labor and received the Lenin and Stalin prizes .

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SURNAME Buschujew, Konstantin Dawidowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бушуев, Константин Давыдович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet aerospace engineer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Tscherten , Mosalsk Raion , Kaluga Oblast
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1978