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[b]Space Cover #217: Rocket pioneer Friedrich Tsander[/b] The above Space Cover of the Week commemorates the 90th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Tsander. Tsander was a Baltic German pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russion empire and Soviet Union. He designed the first liquid fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space. Tributes to Tsander include the naming of a crater on the moon after him and the street in Riga where his family home was located was named after him.
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