Gleb Lozino-Lozinskiy

Gleb Jewgenjewitsch Losino - Losinski (Russian Глеб Евгеньевич Лозино - Лозинский; born December 25, 1909 in Kiev, † 28 November 2001 in Moscow) was a Russian aerospace engineer.

After completing his studies at the Kharkov Aviation Institute in 1930 Losino - Losinski worked on the design of the first Soviet jet engine. In 1941 he came to the design office 155, where he worked on the development of various types of gas turbines. He also designed aircraft with swiveling engine nozzles and was responsible for the design of numerous MiG fighters.

When the United States did with the X-15 rocket plane flights to the edge of space, headed Losino - Losinski from 1965 to plan the MiG -105, a project for a manned spaceplane. The program has been set, however, and Losino - Losinski worked on the MiG -31, a flying at supersonic speed interceptor, and the MiG- 29th

Based on the experience with the MiG -105 the Soviet Union began in 1976 with the development of the space shuttle Buran, in response to the proposal by the American space agency NASA Space Shuttle. Losino - Losinski even became the director of NPO Molniya, the company that was responsible for the construction of the Buran determined. The only flight of Buran took place in 1988 unmanned. A manned flight could not be performed because after the collapse of the Soviet Union lacked the financial resources to continue the program.

In parallel with the work on the Buran, designed Losino - Losinski the less expensive concept of multi -purpose Reusable Aerospace System ( MAKS ), a little ship, which should be started on an An-225. The program was also abolished with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Even the attempts to convince the West of the idea failed.

Gleb Losino - Losinski received two Order of Lenin, the Red Star, the Lenin Prize and was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor.