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Topic: Sergei Khrushchev, Nikita's son (1935-2020)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-19-2020 05:06 PM
   
Sergei Khrushchev, the son of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, died on Thursday (June 18). He was 84. Sergei Khrushchev has held both U.S. and Russian citizenships since 1999, eight years after moving to Providence, Rhode Island, and resided permanently in the U.S. His granddaughter Nina Khrushcheva told RBC that Khrushchev died in the city of Cranston, R.I., but did not disclose the cause of his death.The noted scientist and author had developed guidance systems for missiles, submarines, spacecraft and moon vehicles as a rocket engineer in Moscow. Khrushchev was generous with his time with space historians, offering a unique view of the space race era. In July 2019, he spoke to TIME Magazine's Jeffrey Kluger about his memories of the Apollo 11 moon landing. "We were traveling by car and we stopped at Chernobyl," he said in a recent phone conversation, speaking from Newport, R.I., where he has a professorship at the Naval War College. "It was just a nice small river there. One of our friends had a small telescope. We talked about how we had bragged that we would be first on the moon. But like all other people in the world, now we were proud of humanity. We looked up at the moon through the telescope and saw nothing." |
randy
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