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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Russian: Сергей Павлович Королёв, romanized: Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ kərɐˈlʲɵf] ⓘ; Ukrainian: Сергій Павлович Корольов, romanized: Serhii Pavlovych Koroliov, IPA: [serˈɦij ˈpɑvlovɪtʃ koroˈlʲɔv]; 12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 ...
Mar 9, 2007 · Sergei Korolev is the man responsible for the first human spaceflight. Although the world knew of his achievements - Sputnik, Vostok, Soyuz - the man himself remained a total mystery until his death, as his identity was a well-kept state secret.
Jun 12, 2024 · Sergei Korolev (born January 12, 1907 [December 30, 1906, Old Style], Zhitomir, Russia [now Zhytomyr, Ukraine]—died January 14, 1966, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Soviet designer of guided missiles, rockets, and spacecraft.
Oct 15, 2016 · Sergei Korolev is credited as being the founder of the Soviet Union's space program. He designed the rocket that put Sputnik in orbit.
Korolev was saved by the intervention of senior aircraft designer Sergei Tupolev, himself a prisoner, who requested his services in the TsKB-39 sharashka. Following the war, Korolev was released from prison and appointed Chief Constructor for development of a long-range ballistic missile.
One of the greatest masters of innovation in the 20th century, Sergei Korolev was the lead scientist, rocket engineer, and designer of spacecraft for the Soviet Union during the 1950s and...
Jul 6, 2021 · Sergei Korolev was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) is widely regarded as the founder of the Soviet space program. Involved in pre-World War II studies of rocketry in the USSR, Korolev, like many of his colleagues, went through Stalin's prisons and later participated in the search for rocket technology in occupied Germany.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was born on December 30, 1906 (January 12, 1907, in the Gregorian calendar used in Russia), in the Ukranian town of Zhitomir. As a young child he wanted to be a pilot, and by age seventeen he had designed a glider (an aircraft that relies on air currents to stay aloft).
Jan 6, 2021 · Known during his lifetime only as ‘Chief Designer,’ Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer Sergei Korolev was the technological genius behind putting the first man into space.
