There’s no doubt Korolev’s ICBMs were vital to getting Sputnik off the ground. The Soviets had been hard at work on versions of German V-2 ballistic missiles, and began engineering the R-7 in ...

Korolev is considered the father of the Soviet space programme, developing the first satellite Sputnik as well as Vostok 1, which carried first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961.

We see Sergei Korolev's release from the Gulag, and how he is set to work on Soviet rockets, first attempting to copy the V-2, then building a more efficient rocket of his own. 80 2.

The text of the speech by S.P.Korolev RSC Energia Designer General, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.P.Semenov at the unveiling of the monument to V.P. Glushko on October 4, 2001 ...