Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD)
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The first Soviet liquid-fuel rocket, GIRD-X in 1933. At far left is Sergei P. Korolev, later chief designer of the Soviet space program.
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Russian rocket engineers and enthusiasts pose with their first liquid-fuel rocket, GIRD-X in 1933. At far left, with a Red Army cap, is Sergei P. Korolev, who would lead the Soviet space program during the 1950s and 1960s.
Credit:
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Photo Number:
SI 73-7133
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Date:
1933
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