Russia 2012 Fridrihs Canders (Friedrich Zander), Space Theorist and Rocket Scientist
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 9th August 2012
- one value
- Design: A Yakovlev
- Printed by: Goznak, in sheets of 15 (3 x 5)
- Print process: lithography
- stamp format height 30mmm x width 42mm
- Perforations: 12.4 x 12
Friedrich Zander (Fridrihs Canders), 1887-1933, Latvian Space Flight Theorist and Rocket Scientist
13r ~ potrait of the Latvian physicist and engineer, diagram (after his patent filed 1919 for a winged rocket), celestial bodies
Zander theorised about space travel (eg need for and means of life support, means of safe re-entry to the earth's atmosphere), designed the first successful Soviet rocket engines, including the OR-2 for the GIRD-10 which flew successfully November 1933 (after his death)
