Korolev, Sergei
Russian Engineer and Designer 1907-1966
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the chief designer of launch vehicles during the early years of the Soviet Union's space program and the dri...
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Sergei Korolev
Born December 30, 1906 (Zhitomir, Ukraine)
Died January 14, 1966 (Moscow, Russia)
Russian engineer
During the 1950s and 1960s the former Soviet Union and the United States were engaged ...
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Sergei Korolev was a major figure an driving force in the development of the Russian space program. Influenced by the ideas of interplanetary flight put forth by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , Korolev becam...
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Moscow (dpa) - The shock in the West was deep when the bleeping
from Sputnik 1 was able to be picked up from space by simple radios
worldwide 50 years ago.
Th...
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Russia on Thursday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch that opened the space age, with officials seeking to revive the glory of the Soviet program, although some experts worry abo...
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In this remote and rusting town on the barren steppes of Central Asia, the space race and the Sputnik era seem much more than a memory.Rockets still pierce the heavens in a halo of smoke during lau...
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Just a month after the Soviet Union stunned the world by putting the first artificial satellite into orbit, it boasted a new victory — a much bigger satellite carrying a mongrel dog called La...
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Just a month after the Soviet Union stunned the world by putting the first artificial satellite into orbit, it boasted a new victory — a much bigger satellite carrying a mongrel dog called La...
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When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunnin...
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Korolev, Sergei
Korolev, Sergei
Sergei Korolev
FEATURE: Russia wants to revive space dominance of Sputnik era
