Sergei Korolev, called the father of the Soviet space program, designed the basketball-shaped sphere, now famously known as Sputnik.

On Nov. 1, 1963, the Soviet Polyot-1 spacecraft, the first satellite capable of maneuvering in orbit, was launched from the Tyura-Tam firing range, now called the Baikonur Space Center, in Kazakhstan.

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1906-1966) was a Russian spacecraft designer who designed the rocket used to launch Sputnik. [Sergei Korolev: Architect of Soviet Space Program] A crowd gazes upon one of ...

The distance can vary considerably, because each planet moves in its own orbit around the sun.) The Martian crater was named after Sergei Korolev, the chief architect of the Soviet space program.

Vladimir Putin has drawn a parallel between Elon Musk and a key figure in the Soviet space race, Sergei Korolev, praising the SpaceX founder as a visionary.

Sergei Korolev was born to a Belorusian mother and a Russian father in a part of the Russian Empire that is today part of modern-day Ukraine on January 12th, 1907.

The orbiting Mars Express satellite captured images of the 50-mile wide Korolev crater filled with ice.

Russia marked the 100th anniversary on Friday of the birth of Soviet space programme founder Sergei Korolev, the man behind iconic breakthroughs in space exploration including the Sputnik ...

Its “chief designer” was Sergei Korolev, head of the Soviet spaceflight program — though some researchers say a different scientist was the quiet brain of the operation.