Sergei Pavlovich Korolev

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev

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Academician S. P. Korolyov is a famous scientist and founder of practical cosmonautics. He was the chief constructor of the first Earth sputniks and spaceships.

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Korolev was born in 1906 in the small Ukrainian town of Zhitomir into a family of teachers. He spent his childhood with his grandparents in the town of Nezhin where he studied at home with a teacher. He was interested in maths , literature and he read a great deal.

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In 1923 Sergey Korolev joined a Glider Pilots’ Club where he learned to construct gliders and to fly them. In 1925 Korolev entered the Kiev Polytechnical Institute where he studied aviation and maths , but in the evening he had to work for money. After two years in Kiev Korolev came to Moscow and entered the Moscow Higher Technical School.

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During the Great Patriotic War, Korolev constructed a jet engine for aeroplanes and rockets.

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On October 4, 1957 the first man-made sputnik of the Earth was launched into space. It was the result of hard work of scientist Korolev .

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Then dogs were sent into space and only after a lot of experiments the first cosmonaut in the world - Y. A. Gagarin launched into space in the spaceship " Vostok " on April 12, 1961.

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S. P. Korolev died in 1966. For his brilliant work in the name of science and progress he was awarded two Gold Stars of the Hero of Socialist Labour . People will always remember the names of those who opened a new era in the conquest of outer space, and the name of S.P. Korolev is one of them.