Mikhail Tokhonravov

Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonrav
Tikhoronravov, born in July 29, 1900 . He graduated from one of the most notables Air Force academies in the Soviet Union called Zhukovsky in 1925. He became one of the Soviet pioneers of the Soviet Space program where the new ideas of satellites where born. In 1932 Tikhonrav was part of a Soviet Rocket research group called GIRD which was a Soviet research bureau founded in 1931 to study different aspects of Rocketry,and for 1934 he becomes the head of a department at the Rocket Research Institute (RNII) the same program that designed Sputnik-3, Luna-1, Luna-3, Luna-4 and the early Venus and Mars probes.In March 3 1979 Mikhail Klavdievich die at the edge of 79.