S.P. Korolev

January 12 1907 birthday Sergei Pavlovich Korolev is one of the main creators of Soviet rocket and space technology, which ensured strategic parity and made the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics an advanced space-rocket power, and a key figure in human exploration of space, the founder of practical cosmonautics. Under his leadership the launch of the first artificial satellite and the first cosmonaut of the planet, Yuri Gagarin, was organized and carried out.

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