Konstantin Davydovich Bushuyev (russian: Константин Давыдович Бушуев; 23 May 1914 – 26 October 1978) was a

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engineer and director of the Apollo–Soyuz for the Soviet Union.

Early life and education

Bushuyev was born on 23 May 1914 in the village of Cherten, in the district of Mosaik, Kaluga Oblast, in what was then the

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. He was the son of rural teachers. Bushuyev graduated in 1930 from an industrial college in Pesochnya (later known as Kirov). He was then a foreman and later a deputy shop manager at the P.L.Voikov Moscow Iron Foundry before earning an admission to the

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in 1936. Bushuyev graduated with a degree in aircraft mechanical engineering in 1941.

Career

It is presumed he joined the Soviet rocketry program shortly after the end of WWII; his area of expertise appears to have been applied dynamics. By 1948 he was head of a rocketry design office. Along with other members of Sergei Korolev’s team, Bushuyev was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1951 "for the development of instrumentation for temperature measurement for the R-1 missile flight tests." The launch of

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earned Bushuyev the

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, the highest civilian award in the Soviet Union. He earned a Lenin Prize in 1960.

References

1914 births 1978 deaths Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Moscow Aviation Institute alumni Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Heroes of Socialist Labour Stalin Prize winners Lenin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the USSR State Prize Apollo–Soyuz Test Project Russian aerospace engineers Soviet aerospace engineers Soviet space program personnel {{Soviet-bio-stub Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery