1924 Chronology
Chronology
18 events
1924-1925
- Further Goddard work on liquid propellant engines - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Goddard. Goddard worked on a displacement cylinder model; two pumps and two engines; a powder igniter; and refractory-lined combustion chambers and nozzles..
1924 February 23
- Birth of Ruben F Mettler - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Mettler. American engineer, at TRW 1955-1988, president and COO, 1969-1977; chairman of the board and CEO, 1977-1988..
1924 March 1
- Birth of Donald Kent 'Deke' Slayton - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Slayton. American test pilot astronaut 1959-1982. 1 spaceflight, 9.1 days in space. Flew to orbit on ASTP (1975). Slated to fly third Mercury mission, grounded due to a medical issue and became astronaut commander, assigning crews for lunar landings..
1924 March 21
- Birth of Lewis Emmerich - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Emmerich. American engineer. Project engineer for the Atlas-Mercury manned launch vehicle..
1924 March 22
- Birth of Yevgeni Ilich Ostashev - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Ostashev. Russian officer. First Directorate Chief of Baikonur 1956-1960. Died in the Nedelin catastrophe..
1924 April 1
LV Family: GIRD. Launch Vehicle: GIRD-09.- GiRD established. - . Nation: Russia. Central Committee for the Study of Rocket Propulsion (GIRD) established in the Soviet Union..
1924 June 12
- Birth of George H W Bush - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Bush. American Politician. George H.W. Bush served as president of the United States between 1989 and 1993. Before that time he had been a diplomat, director of the CIA, and vice president under Ronald Reagan.
1924 July 6
- Birth of Robert Michael White - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: White, Robert. American test pilot 1960-1962. First person to reach space in a rocketplane on X-15 Flight 62. 1 suborbital spaceflight on the X-15, 0.2 hours in space..
1924 July 27
- Birth of Zhuang Yuzhi - . Nation: China. Related Persons: Zhuang Yuzhi. Chinese Engineer. Metallurgist, developed materials for China's first recoverable satellites..
1924 August 4
- Birth of Vladimir Nikolayevich Benderov - .
Nation: Russia.
Related Persons: Benderov.
Russian test pilot. Graduated from the Zhukovsky, 1950. Worked as an engineer and senior test pilot for Tupolev. Flew MiG-21 Tu-144 wing testbed. Proposed on 1964-06-29 as cosmonaut for Voskhod flights, but not confirmed. Died in the crash of a Tu-144 supersonic transport during an aviation demonstration at the 1973 Paris Airshow in Le Bourget.
1924 August 9
- Birth of James Wayne Wood - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Wood. American pilot astronaut, 1962-1963..
1924 August 24
- Birth of Walter P Jones - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Jones, Walter. American test pilot, flew the D-558-1, D-558-2, X-4, and X-5. Died in crash of the YF-89D prototype interceptor..
1924 October 1
- Birth of Jimmy Carter - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Carter, Jimmy. American Politician. Jimmy Carter was president of the United States between 1977 and 1981. Previously he had been a naval officer and businessman before entering politics. He entered politics in the Georgia State Legislature.
1924 October 9
- Birth of Robert Aitken Rushworth - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Rushworth. American test pilot 1958 - 1966. Selected as X-15 pilot in 1958, he made the most X-15 flights and obtained astronaut wings on X-15 Flight 87. Flew 187 combat missions in Vietnam. 1 suborbital spaceflight on the X-15, 0.2 hours in space..
1924 October 25
- Birth of Viktor Petrovich Makeyev - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Makeyev. Russian engineer. Chief Designer 1955-1985 of SKB-385. Leading designer of tactical and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. Innovations included submerged engines, stellar-updated inertial navigation, and extendible nozzles..
1924 November 10
- Birth of Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Reshetnev. Russian engineer. Chief Designer and General Designer 1961-1996 of OKB-10, primary Soviet designer of communications and navigation satellites..
1924 December 14
- Birth of Frank J Dore - . Nation: USA. Related Persons: Dore. American engineer, prominent manager in the Atlas program, very important in the early years as a performance analyst and project point man. NASA credited him with for convincing them that the Atlas would do the Mercury mission..