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.

Soviet rocket designer Boris Chertok served as Sergei Korolev's first deputy. Now 95 years old, he still lucidly remembers details about the beginnings of the Soviet space program.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Chief Designer Sergei Korolev was expected to call from the Tyuratam launch site (later renamed Baikonur Cosmodrome) in Kazakhstan to report on the launch of the world's first man-made satellite.

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

In May 1954, Sergei Korolev, ... When the top-secret official decree authorizing the first Soviet scientific satellite had finally came out on Jan. 30, 1956, ...

On Oct. 4, 1957 the first artificial Earth satellite called Sputnik-1 (in Russian “sputnik” means satellite) ... Sergei Korolev with dog before putting it in orbit,1960.

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 ...

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.