Sergei Korolev, Ukrainian-Russian engineer and academic (born 1906)

Sergei Korolev

Soviet aerospace engineer (1907–1966)

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in the launching of Laika, Sputnik 3, the…