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  2. Sergei Pavlovich Korolev [a] [b] [c] (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906] – 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.

  3. Mar 9, 2007 · On 21 August 1957, the R-7 was successfully launched from a new rocket site near Baikonur in Kazakhstan. From Sputnik to Vostok. Vostok was launched into space on 12 April 1961. Dubbed ‘Semyorka’, the R-7 was sufficiently powerful to put a satellite into orbit.

  4. Sep 3, 2024 · Korolev was placed in charge of systems engineering for Soviet launch vehicles and spacecraft; he directed the design, testing, construction, and launching of the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz crewed spacecraft as well as of the uncrewed spacecraft in the Kosmos, Molniya, and Zond series.

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  5. By 1 April 1953, as Korolev was preparing for the first launch of the R-11 rocket, he received approval from the Council of Ministers for development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the R-7.

  6. Oct 15, 2016 · Famed Russian spacecraft S. P. Korolev (in fedora hat) and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin walk to the launch pad on April 12, 1961 ahead of the launch of Vostok 1, which would become the...

  7. On 4 October, 1957 in the USSR the first successful satellite launch has been achieved. According to preliminary data, the rocket launcher carried the satellite to the necessary orbital speed of about 8,000 meters per second.

  8. Jan 12, 2022 · In the 1930s, Korolev began building rockets as part of MosGIRD, a group founded in 1931 to research recoil propulsion systems. There he received essential impulses for his later work from Friedrich Zander.