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Personal: Male. Born in Russia. Pioneering developer of Soviet solid propellant missiles. Nadiradze Chronology 23 January 1968 - Three-launch Soviet lunar expedition pitched. The 'big' Soviet of Chief Designers meets and the three-launch landing concept developed a month earlier is presented in detail. Pilyugin pointed out that this was a typical contradiction. Mishin had just made a presentation to the expert commission justifying that the one-launch scheme was safe and reliable. Now they wanted to put forward a new scheme because the one-launch scheme was unsafe and unfeasible. Glushko piled on by reiterating that the Kuznetsov engines for the N1 were rotten ...more... 23 December 1968 - Soviet crisis meeting mulls response to Apollo 8. Flight: Apollo 8. Following the success of Apollo 8, Ustinov calls a crisis meeting at the Ministry of Defence. His question - how to reply to the American's success? Ustinov points out that the Americans obviously had a better moon landing programme ...more... 29 May 1969 - N1 State Commission. Over two days a State Commission reviewed all of the conclusions of the N1 3L failure investigation and the readiness of N1 5L for flight. All of the fixes identified to remedy the 3L failure had been incorporated into 5L. It was felt that the behaviour of the systems in fire conditions were understood and appropriate measures had been taken. The wiring had been rerouted and insulated. Barmin wanted the system not to shut down any engines under any conditions during the first 15-20 seconds of flight, so that the booster would clear the pad and there would be no risk of the pad's destruction. But there was no time to develop such measures before the 5L launch; it could only be added in vehicle 6L. 6L was planned to have the first real payload, not an L3S mock-up as on 3L and 5L, ...more... Bibliography and Further Reading
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