[FPSPACE] Fwd: Mikhail Klaudievich Tikhonravov, father of the N1?

[Brian Harvey]

So far as we know, Tikhonravov had overall supervision of the N-1 
design, which was them aimed at building the TMK or Heavy 
Interplanetary Ship, to Mars.  Indeed, the joke was that TMK actually 
stood for  Tikhonravov, Mikhail Klavdeivich, after his name. 

  As for the end of his career, when on 3rd August 1964, the Soviet 
Union formally decided to send men to land on the moon, Tikhonravov's 
department #9 in OKB-1 was disbanded and its documentation was 
transferred to Chelomei’s OKB-52.    Tikhonravov chose not to go, but 
he stayed on in OKB-1 for another 18 months and finally left around the 
time of Korolev’s death in January 1966.   He was at retirement age.  
His name was on a couple of publications up to 1967.  His contact with 
Mishin after Jan. 66 was probably minimal.

Brian Harvey
Dublin, Ireland







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> From: "E.P. Grondine" <epgrondine at hotmail.com>
> Date: 16 December 2008 03:55:18 GMT
> To: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
> Subject: [FPSPACE] Mikhail Klaudievich Tikhonravov, father of the N1?
>
>  Hi all -
>
> Going back through my history of  cosmonautics, much information has 
> been
> released on Mikhail Klaudievich Tikhonravov since I wrote it. When I 
> wrote my history
> about all that was known was that Tikhonravov disappeared from view 
> after
> his landmark article "Flight to the Moon" in Pioneer Pravda in 1951. 
> Tikhonravov's transfer to
> S.P.'s shop in 1956 right before Korolev's first presentation of the 
> N-1 probably explains
> a whole lot, but the details still have to be filled in.
>
> Another question is who was the engineer/scientist who authored the 
> article on Moon flight
> for Red Fleet "Reaction Engines" in October, 1951, in other words who 
> was "Aviants"?
>
> Nothing is known about Tikhonravov's relationship with Mishin after 
> Korolev's death.
>
> Tikhonravov appears to have been S.P. manned space theorist, as 
> H.H.Koelle was for von Braun.
>
> On a personal note, I find it ironic that Tikhonravov's final works 
> were on asteroids.
>
> E.P. Grondine
> Man and Impact in the Americas
> (fpspacers can write me off list for a special deal for copies)
>
>
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