Word: bushuyev
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pride. Finally, there is the delicate problem of steering the mission past the national pride and sensitivities of both sides. That responsibility will rest heavily with the directors of the project. For the Russians, the man in charge will be Konstantin Bushuyev, a 58-year-old aerospace engineer whose involvement in Russian rocketry predates Sputnik. For the U.S., the project director is 35-year-old Glynn Lunney, until now chief of the flight director's office in Houston and best remembered for his calmly professional performance in Mission Control during the near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13. Neither side...
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