[1] Bushuyev was born on 23 May 1914 in the village of Cherten,[1] in the district of Mosaik, Kaluga Oblast, in what was then the Russian Empire.

[1][2] It is presumed he joined the Soviet rocketry program shortly after the end of WWII; his area of expertise appears to have been applied dynamics.

[2] Along with other members of Sergei Korolev’s team, Bushuyev was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1951 "for the development of instrumentation for temperature measurement for the R-1 missile flight tests.

"[1] The launch of Sputnik earned Bushuyev the Hero of Socialist Labour, the highest civilian award in the Soviet Union.

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