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Sergei Korolev

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Sergei Korolev

Soviet rocket designer, behind Sputnik 1 and the N-1.

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Dates
1906–1966
Also known as
Sergei P. Korolev
Wikidata
Q170842

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 1906–1966 Sergei Korolev
  2. 1957 Sergei Korolev developed Sputnik 1
  3. 1962 Sergei Korolev developed N-1
Proof 2 sources
  1. Sputnik Biographies: Sergei P. Korolev (1906-1966), NASA History Division, 8 Feb 2005. Primary record
    launched Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957.
    His design bureau began work on the N-1 launch vehicle, a counterpart to the American Saturn V, beginning in 1962.
    Korolev and other aerospace engineers were thrown into the Soviet prison system in 1937-1938 during the peak of Stalin's purges.
    On 14 January 1966 Sergei P. Korolev died from a botched hemorrhoid operation.
  2. A Soviet Moonshot: Interpreting the Diaries of Vasily Mishin, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Scholarship & press
    All four uncrewed flight tests of the N-1 ended in failure. The N-1 program was canceled in 1974, and the Soviet crewed lunar program passed into oblivion.
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