The Soviet space program never recovered ... but he’s almost as unknown today as when he died. His name was Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Korolev was born in 1907; he studied to be an aeronautical ...

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 ...