plop SPACEPHOTOS
 Untitled Document




   Home » Ref S18775 (detail)

 
My Light Box / Estimate Request : 0 image(s)
Alternate choice of images for this theme
                        
Save this image free of charge
in 800 pixels for layout use
(right click, Save as...)



Ref : S18775

Theme : Russian - Soviet flights  (44 images)

Title : The State Commission for the Sputnik Satellite

Caption :

The State Commission for the Sputnik satellite shown in 1957. The State Commission was a temporary ad-hoc body comprised of various representatives of the Soviet military, industry, and the design bureaus. The State Commission remained in existence only during the testing phase of Sputnik, serving as a primary conduit for communication with party leaders on the state of the program. Seated left to right are: Ivan Bulychev, Grigoriy Udarov, Aleksandr Mrykin, Mikolay Pilyugin, Mstislav Keldysh, Vasiliy Mishin, Leonid Voskresenskiy, Vasiliy Ryabikov, Mitrofan Medelin, Sergey Korolev, Konstantin Rudnev, Valentin Glushko, and Valdimir Barmin. Standing left to right are: Aleksey Bogomolov, Pavel Trubachev, Viktor Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Vasilyev, Konstantin Bushuyev, Aleksandr Nosov, Ivan Borisenko, Aleksey Nesterenko, Georgiy Pashkov, Mikhail Ryazanskiy, and Viktor Kurbatov.