Word: sagdeyev
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That, and the fact that sending sophisticated technology into the U.S.S.R. would be risky, suggests that the U.S. is unlikely to take up Sagdeyev's offer. U.S.-Soviet cooperation and the rising fortunes of the Soviet space program have posed troubling questions for Washington that cannot be ignored. Can the U.S. forge a consistent, long-range policy for space? What kind of resources will it take for America to recapture its position as the leading space power? Considering the Soviet lead, is it possible to catch up? It is up to the Reagan Administration, which is currently re-evaluating...
Wearing a stylish pinstripe, double-breasted suit, Roald Sagdeyev, the director of the Soviet Space Research Institute, began by disarming the group of Cornell astronomers during a recent U.S. tour with a folksy story about a Russian woodsman. Then, in a voice strained from singing When the Saints Go Marching In to Soviets and Americans gathered at the Chautauqua Institution, he discussed the dangers of nuclear weapons and the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars. Finally, the trim, 5-ft. 8-in. physicist, who rarely drinks and never smokes, concluded with his vision for a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R...
Besides being an accomplished scientist and administrator, Sagdeyev is the Soviet Union's chief space diplomat. He spent more than two weeks in August flying from the U.S.S.R. to Hawaii, New York and Washington to recruit scientists for Soviet missions and to publicize Moscow's space program. His dizzying schedule of speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail...
Born in Moscow, Sagdeyev, 54, once planned to become a mathematician, like both of his parents. But as a student at Moscow University in the mid-1950s, he switched majors to study physics. "A physicist can still enjoy the beauty of mathematics and have a more intimate interaction with nature," he says. Sagdeyev also took up English, which he calls the "first necessity for a scientist." He passed along his appreciation of the language to his son and daughter, both computer scientists, and to his two small grandchildren...
...Sagdeyev increasingly found traditional Soviet science, influenced heavily by Communist Party politics, stifling. In 1961 he helped found Akademgorodok (Science City), an informal think tank located in the Siberian countryside, away from the intensely political atmosphere of Moscow. Sagdeyev was at first concerned about neglecting his research when he was asked to assume control of the struggling space-science program at IKI in 1973. The position offered a measure of independence (though hardly on a level enjoyed by top NASA scientists), but it was still part of the rigid Soviet scientific bureaucracy. Recalls Sagdeyev: "It meant a big change...