Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race, overseeing the R-7 rocket and the launches of Sputnik 1 and the first crewed Vostok spacecraft. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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a Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer who led the development of the Soviet space program during the early years of the Space Race
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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 [O.S. 30 December 1906], 14 January 1966) 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.
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