COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection
Record
Title:
The State Commission for the Sputnik Satellite
Full Description:
The State Commission for the Sputnik satellite shown in 1957. The State Commission was a temporary ad-hoc body comprised of various representatives of the Soviet military, industry, and the design bureaus. The State Commission remained in existence only during the testing phase of Sputnik, serving as a primary conduit for communication with party leaders on the state of the program. Seated left to right are: Ivan Bulychev, Grigoriy Udarov, Aleksandr Mrykin, Mikolay Pilyugin, Mstislav Keldysh, Vasiliy Mishin, Leonid Voskresenskiy, Vasiliy Ryabikov, Mitrofan Medelin, Sergey Korolev, Konstantin Rudnev, Valentin Glushko, and Valdimir Barmin. Standing left to right are: Aleksey Bogomolov, Pavel Trubachev, Viktor Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Vasilyev, Konstantin Bushuyev, Aleksandr Nosov, Ivan Borisenko, Aleksey Nesterenko, Georgiy Pashkov, Mikhail Ryazanskiy, and Viktor Kurbatov.
Date:
1957
NASA Center:
Headquarters
Publication Information:
Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi. Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
Subject Category:
Soviet People-Pioneers
Keywords:
Barmin
Audience:
General Public
facet_when:
1957
facet_when_year:
1957
Image #:
statecommission1957
UID:
SPD-GRIN-GPN-2002-000165
Center:
HQ
Center Number:
statecommission1957
GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000165
Source-Capture Information:
Asif Siddiqi
Original Source:
DIGITAL
