Sergei Korolev is credited as being the founder of the Soviet Union's space program. During his tenure, the Soviet Union saw many space firsts. This included the first satellite, Sputnik (1957 ...

The United States announced plans to send a satellite into orbit around the sun in March of 1959. The Chief Designer does it in January 1959. ... His name was Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.

Sergei Korolev News from United Press International. Top News . U.S. News; World News; ... On Nov. 1, 1963, the Soviet Polyot-1 spacecraft, the first satellite capable of maneuvering in orbit, ...

For Korolev, who had launched the first satellite and the first man into space, recognition was to come only after his death. As an engineering graduate in Moscow during the 1930s, he co-founded an ...

On October 4, 1957, Earth received its first artificial satellite companion, Sputnik 1. ... The designing team was led by Sergei Korolev, ...

Throughout his life, Soviet space designer Mikhail Tikhonravov (left) never got the credit or acclaim accorded to Sergei Korolev, his friend. Ten years before they launched the world's first ...

Putin went on to compare Musk to the late Soviet rocket pioneer, Sergei Korolev. Korolev, who died in 1966, was the lead rocket engineer and designer for the Soviet Union’s satellites and rockets.

Earth’s first-ever artificial satellite Sputnik launched on October 4, 1957. ... Between 1954 and 1957, space innovator Sergei Korolëv ran the U.S.S.R.’s ballistic program.

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.

The first R-7 vehicle was designed by the legendary Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev. ... A modified version of the R-7 rocket, therefore, launched the Sputnik satellite later in 1957.