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.

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.

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.

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 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, ...

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 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 ...

The launch the world's first satellite was the birth of the Space Age. Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 sent a shockwave through the American public.

For Korolev, who had launched the first satellite and the first man into space, recognition was to come only after his death. ... Sergei Korolev. The man who mined the stars.