Open access journals appeared Vasily Mishin

Vasily Mishin - probably the most criticized of the patriarchs of the Soviet space program. He met with Sergei Korolev more in 1945 as part of a special group to study the captured V-2 rockets. Vasily Mishin participated in the establishment of Soviet ballistic missiles R-1, R-2, R-5, R-7, was the first deputy Korolev OKB-1. And after the death of Sergei Pavlovich voting deputies he was almost unanimously elected as chief designer and head of the OKB-1, then enjoyed the confidence and respect of his colleagues. However, it was during his management to the most tragic failure of the Soviet space program - Komarov's death on the "Soyuz-1", the failure of the Soviet manned lunar program, the death Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsaeva on "Soyuz-11».

Vasily Mishin personality can try to imagine the memories of those who worked with him. In tetralogy of Boris Chertok "Rockets and People" history of the Soviet space program and participation in Mishin is described in detail, but Chertok - a great diplomat and a very polite person. He describes many facts, but never gives emotional evaluations and pokes a finger at those who in his opinion is wrong. In contrast Chertok, diaries General Kamanina personality Mishina evaluated very negatively. Their diaries Kamanin wrote in the table, so the terms are not shy, plus, it seems that life experience polar pilot and aircraft commander of World War II made it quite ruthless people. Who is right? Now, thanks to the efforts of a team of great people, we can look at Misha's probably as close as possible. What can you tell about a person better than his own diary?

I own diaries unusual fate. Vasily Mishin personally put them up for sale at auction, "Sotheby's" in 1993 without removing copies. Thirty-six notebooks unique records left in the US businessman Ross Perot. Fortunately, the fund Perot agreed to make copies of diaries after his death in 2001 Mishin. Almost fifteen years have gone processing, decoding and digitizing material. Now, thanks to a team of altruists we can look at the history of the Soviet space program and personality Vasily Mishin from a new perspective.

Diaries lined publicly available in PDF. I hope they will be both interesting and useful to you.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/245004/