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Topic: Oleg Ivanovsky, Vostok designer (1922-2014)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 09-19-2014 05:44 AM
   
Oleg Ivanovsky, the chief designer of the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft and later the head of NPO Lavochkin, died Thursday (Sept. 18). He was 92.Lavochkin and Roscosmos reported his death (in Russian). From AFP: Ivanovsky was a senior designer at the facility codenamed OKB-1 which built the Vostok spaceship that blasted Gagarin into orbit in 1961.
"He participated directly in preparing the flight of the world's first cosmonaut," Roscosmos said in a statement.
"The last to shake the hand of the world's first cosmonaut before blastoff was Oleg Genrikhovich Ivanovsky. After that he closed the hatch of the ship," Roscosmos said, using his patronymic. Photographs published by Roscosmos show Ivanovsky, a slight man in blue overalls over a shirt and tie, helping Gagarin climb the stairs up to the spaceship and get into his seat.
"I squeezed into the cabin. I hugged him, shook his hand and gave him a slap on the helmet before getting out. A moment later and the hatch swung closed onto its locks," Ivanovsky remembered in a 2007 interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily. |
minipci
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Neil DC
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posted 09-20-2014 12:47 PM
Back in about 1993/4 I went with a group of students on a trip to Star City. Part of the itinerary included a visit to the museum at NPO Lavochkin. An amazing variety of Russian interplanetary spacecraft are displayed there. On our tour we were introduced to a man who was described as having been there when Gagarin was launched. I realize now that this must have been Oleg Ivanovsky. A modest man for such a historic moment. I wish we could have appreciated his contribution more at the time. I am glad that he was able to live a full and long life. |
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