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    The Moscow-based Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (also known as the Group for the Investigation of Reactive Engines and Reactive Flight or Jet...
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  • experiments carried out by members of the 'Group for the Study of Reactive Motion' (better known by its Russian acronym "GIRD") in the 1930s, where Zander, Korolev...
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    Mikhail Tikhonravov (category Academic staff of Moscow Aviation Institute)
    rocketry. In 1932, he joined Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), as one of the four brigade leaders. His brigade built the GIRD-09 rocket, fueled...
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    participated in the creation of the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), one of the earliest state-sponsored centers for rocket development in the USSR...
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    with gasoline. In September 1931 Tsander formed the Moscow based 'Group for the Study of Reactive Motion', better known by its Russian acronym "GIRD". In...
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  • also known as the great rhombidodecahedron, a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U73 GIRD (Group for the Study of Reactive Motion), former Soviet...
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    Friedrich Zander (category Engineers from the Russian Empire)
    courses at the Moscow Aviation Institute during this time. In 1931, Zander was a founding member of GIRD (Group for the Study of Reactive Motion) (Группа...
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    established on 21 September 1933 by combining the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) with the Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL). Personnel based...
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  • whole. See otherwise the timeline of private spaceflight or look for achievements by each space agency. The record was set because the Moon was nearly at...
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    in the early 1930s at the Soviet Group for the Study of Reactive Motion. Mikhail Klavdievich Tikhonravov, who would later supervise the design of Sputnik...
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    Yuri Kondratyuk (category Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni)
    Sergei Korolev, then head of the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), the Soviet rocket research group). Korolev offered Kondratyuk a position on...
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    Valentin Glushko (category Members of the Central Committee of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
    member of the Reactive Scientific Research Institute, founded in Moscow in 1931 when GDL merged with the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD)...
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    1931 the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) was formed and was responsible for the first Soviet liquid propelled rocket launch, the GIRD-9...
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    test-firing of a solid fuel rocket was carried out in 1928. Further development was carried out in the 1930s by the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD)...
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    formed the Moscow-based Group for the Study of Reactive Motion, better known by its Russian acronym "GIRD". Zander, who idolized Tsiolkovsky and the German...
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    similar purpose, the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion, was founded in 1931. The two groups merged in 1933 to form the Reactive Scientific Research...
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    Gas Dynamics Laboratory (category Research institutes in the Soviet Union)
    GDL. At the end of 1933 GDL merged with the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) to become the Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII). Nikolai...
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  • 1921 with extensive work at the Gas Dynamics Laboratory (GDL), which was merged with the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD), led by Sergey Korolev...
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    August 1933 (category Months in the 1930s)
    sponsored by the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GRuppa Izucheniya Reaktivnogo Dvizheniya or GIRD), the rocket reached an altitude of either 40 meters...
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    while for heavy elements krypton or xenon are used. Reactive gases can also be used to sputter compounds. The compound can be formed on the target surface...
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  • scientist and inventor, one of pioneers of rocketry and spaceflight, one of leaders of the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion. 2012: 1620, M:1852. Mikhail...
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  • for the Study of Reactive Motion "АО ГНЦ «Центр Келдыша»". АО ГНЦ «Центр Келдыша» (in Russian). 31 October 1933. Archived from the original on July 2...
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    "Ball Motion Study: Phase I and II Final Report" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 27, 2023. Carrubba, Rich (January 1, 2013). "Reactive Bowling...
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    element's reactivity is highly dependent upon its electronic configuration. For a main-group element, a valence electron can exist only in the outermost...
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    Dianetics (category Nation of Islam)
    in the "reactive mind" are dubbed "engrams". Dianetics is proposed as a method to erase these engrams in the reactive mind to achieve a state of clear...
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  • kinematics studies the geometrical aspects of motion of physical objects independent of forces that set them in motion. Constrained motion such as linked...
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  • psoriatic arthritis (PsA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and reactive arthritis (ReA). Symptoms of spondyloarthritis include back pain, arthritis, and enthesitis...
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    organohalogen and organophosphorus compounds can be either reactive or additive. Both reactive and additive flame retardants types can be further separated...
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  • treatment and reduction of other organic waste, such as food, cardboard and horticultural waste. aerodynamics The study of the motion of air, particularly its...
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    Gravity (redirect from Gravitational motion)
    ('On the motion of bodies in an orbit'), which provided a physical justification for Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Halley was impressed by the manuscript...
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