Word: blagonravov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word from the Moon. The Russians seemed eager to be cooperative and, except when military matters were touched on, surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was oriented by small gas jets to take its famous pictures of the far side of the moon (TIME, Nov. 9). Physicist Valerian I. Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior...
...four Russian spacemen, like most U.S. spacemen, are believed to be deep in military missile work. Sedov, a versatile scientist with important accomplishments in both mathematics and physics, has been head of the Soviet Academy's astronautics committee since 1955, is generally considered the No. 1 Russian spaceman. Blagonravov, 65, once an artillery officer in the Czar's army, is an expert on all sorts of weapons, from machine guns to rockets. He served in 1945-46 as Deputy Minister of Higher Education, is believed largely responsible for Soviet emphasis on scientific training...
Little Curly survived the shock of launching; the Russians reported that she was still alive and apparently well after many times round the earth. One Russian scientist, Professor A. A. Blagonravov, said in Moscow that Little Curly is safe, hinting that means had been provided to bring her back to earth for a second appearance on the Moscow radio. Although not impossible, this would be exceedingly difficult, and official Russian sources have made no such promise. But even if she lives for only a short time, her experiences may help keep the first human space voyagers alive...
...Blagonravov, who was accompanied to Washington by Sergei M. Poloskov and A. M. Kasatskin, is a lieutenant general of artillery in the Red army and a member of the Soviet Academy of Science. He is best known in Russia as an authority on weapons, but he has written a great deal about space travel, and some but not all authorities on Russia believe that he is head of Soviet space rocket research. At 63, he is not likely to be the originator of new and daring technology...
...Navy's Viking research rocket, whose thrust is only 27,000 lbs. Even if working perfectly, a Viking is barely strong enough to place a 21½-lb. satellite on its orbit. There is no margin for less-than-perfect performance. The Russians, according to General Blagonravov, used their most powerful rocket to launch the sputnik. Their launching vehicle must have taken off with at least 200,000 lbs. of thrust...