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	Space Pioneer Boris Raushenbach Dead at 86 By Associated Press posted: 08:35 am ET 28 March 2001

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MOSCOW (AP) -- Boris Raushenbach, a scientist who helped the Soviet space program photograph the far side of the Moon, died Tuesday, Russian news reports said. He was 86.

Raushenbach's success as a space pioneer came despite Soviet suspicions of his German heritage.

During World War 2, he was sent to a labor colony in the Ural Mountains. He continued his scientific work, however, and after the war worked with Sergei Korolyov, considered the father of the Soviet space program. In the 1950s and '60s, he worked on the space program when the country sent the first satellite and first human into space.

Raushenbach was featured in a 1966 Soviet television program explaining his role in the Soviet unmanned satellite mission to photograph the far side of the moon.

Later in life, he served on the board of directors for New York financier George Soros' Cultural Initiative Foundation, which distributed grants to Russian scientists and teachers.

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