- Born
- January 18, 1917
- Died
- October 10, 2001 (aged 84)
- Known as
- scientist, design engineer
Vasily Pavlovich Mishin was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet Union, and a prominent rocket pioneer, best remembered for the failures in the Soviet space program that took place under his management.
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