Georg Arthur Constantin Friedrich Zander (Russian: Фридрих Артурович Цандер, tr. Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander; Latvian: Frīdrihs Canders, 11 August [O.S. 23 August] 1887 – 28 March 1933), was a Baltic German pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. He designed the first liquid-fueled rocket to be launched in the Soviet Union, GIRD-X, and made many important theoretical contributions to the road to space.
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23 August 1887 Riga, Latvia
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Died |
28 March 1933 (aged 45) Kislovodsk, Russia
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Zodiac | Leo |
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