The Space Race was a battle ... us to fall behind in this program. I can say with complete confidence that if [chief designer for spacecraft] Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were alive, we would have ...

the Russian space program has not been the same since the fall of the Soviet Union. The decline dates back to the 1966 death of the famous “chief designer,” Sergei Korolev, the father of the ...

So that was where Sergei ... in the Space Race as much on the long-rang planning and smart engineering of the American program as on the infighting and competition within the Soviet space sector ...

The Space Race was a battle ... us to fall behind in this program. I can say with complete confidence that if [chief designer for spacecraft] Sergei Pavlovich Korolev were alive, we would have ...