Boris Chertok
Scientist, Author
1912 – 2011
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Who was Boris Chertok?
Boris Evseyevich Chertok was a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. He was the author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program.
From 1974, he was the deputy chief designer of the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the space aircraft designer bureau which he started working for in 1946. He retired in 1992.
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- Born
- Mar 1, 1912
Łódź - Also known as
- Boris Yevseyevich Chertok
- Борис Евсеевич Черток
- B. E. Chertok
- Nationality
- Russia
- Soviet Union
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow Power Engineering Institute
- Died
- Dec 14, 2011
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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