Soviet space program
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The Soviet space program was the state space program of the Soviet Union, active from 1951 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Unlike its Space Race competitor, the United States, which
Sputnik 516
Гагарин перед полётом
Luna 3 moon
Surfaces of Venus, Venere 13 and Venera 14
Sergei Korolev
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race.
Soviet space program
…United States, which consolidated its space program under NASA, the Soviet space program was divided between several competing design bureaus led by Korolev, Kerimov, Keldysh, Yangel, Glushko, Chelomey, Makeyev, Chertok and Reshetnev, often under the Ministry of General Machine-Building. The program was an…
Нина и Сергей Королевы
Korolev with his nanny Varvara Marchenko in 1907
Korolev in 1912
Korolev in 1925