Valentin Glushko: A man who paved the way into space. Glushko A.V., Davidenok V.

The twentieth century, among many outstanding achievements, was marked by the realization of the centuries -old dream of mankind to overcome the forces of earthly attraction, which laid the beginning of the cosmic era. The development of the cosmos took on an irreversible character. Problems of the Earth and the World Ocean, Weather and Productivity, the Study of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Navigation, Cartography, Radio - and Television Communications, Production of Superfigurations and Unique Materials - all this and much more directly related to the cosmos, which has become the working site, laboratory and the workshop of earthlings.

In the glorious galaxy of pioneers of domestic rocket science and astronautics, one of the most important places is occupied by academician Valentin Petrovich Glushko, whose name is associated with all the most important events that occurred during the formation and development of the industry.

He boldly paved new ways into space, for the first time in the country, creating: rocket fuel; Hundreds of projects of electric, liquid and nuclear missile engines, of which more than 60 worked and work on missiles that have raised the country to the level of a great power, as part of a nuclear missile shield that ensured the country's security and the world around the world; The first rocket devices of the RL, the largest Energia launch vehicle and an unrealized series of its derivatives: “Thunderstorm”, “Volcano” and an unsurpassed universally recognized masterpiece “Energy”-Buran, spaceships, space ships, spaceships. Stations, projects of lunar and Martian bases and cities and space production.

The book proposed is the most detailed biography of an outstanding scientist who left his mark in domestic and world science.