Experimental and research rockets
Edited by:
Hero of Socialist Labor, Academician V. P. MISHIN; Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR V. V. AKSYONOV.
Collective Consultant:
State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky
Fulfilling numerous reader requests and in connection with the 50th anniversary of GIRD and the 20th anniversary of the first human spaceflight, the editorial team dedicates the thirteenth issue of the Historical Series "TM" to Soviet experimental and research rockets. The author of the articles is engineer Yuri Biryukov, and the artist is Mikhail Petrovsky.
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The rocket is the oldest thermal machine used by humans. However, its first millennium of development had no noticeable impact on history.
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The initial program for GIRD was set by K. E. Tsiolkovsky. Upon receiving a letter on September 23, 1931, from enthusiasts who had initiated a new rocket organization in Moscow, he replied the same day with a detailed letter:
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One of the main problems faced by the designers of the first rocket-powered aircraft (RPA) was ensuring the stability of their flight along a given trajectory. Stabilization using a tail assembly, which provided gunpowder rocket projectiles with not very high but acceptable accuracy, turned out to be almost ineffective here.
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The aspiration to explore new spaces that had previously been inaccessible has always been inherent to Russian people, and after the Revolution it became one of the characteristic features of the Soviet nation.
