Geography 2090A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sergei Korolev, Alexey Leonov, Valentina Tereshkova

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Interested in building rockets, became known by german military before nazis came to power, hitler eventually gained power. Funded by nazi party, had opportunity to leave regime but stayed for money, continued to work with nazis developing rockets. 1942-45 launched rockets to london, developed a-4 rockets (passed through atmosphere"s edge), nazi rockets came too late". Cut deal with americans to advance u. s. knowledge, rather work with americans than soviets, initially hid membership of s. s. Created jupiter c, 1946: u. s. able to launch objects in space, 1947: u. s. launched first fruit-flies into space. 1960s: press found out his team worked with nazis (scaled up goddard"s design, maximized capacity using line/slave labour) Don"t really know, atmosphere slowly dissipates, karmin line (100km above msl), first object in space sometimes considered a-4. Soviet von-braun", chief designer, worked with rockets, interested in going to space. Convinced russian president khrushchev to use a rocket to put a shiny object into space (reflects a lot of light)