Posted on March 20, 2013
“We are the first to have given a rocket a speed of 3,300 mph. We have thus proved that it is quite possible to build piloted missiles or aircraft to fly at supersonic speeds. We did it with automatic control. Our rocket today reached a height of n...
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Posted on December 12, 2013
The Space Age had barely begun when Soviet engineers started planning ways to destroy enemy satellites. Some Western analysts have speculated that a design for an anti-satellite weapon system was started at Korolev’s OKB-1 bureau as early as 1956…
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Posted on March 27, 2013
“In 1937, I was officially demanded to join the National Socialist Party. At this time I was already Technical Director at the Army Rocket Center at Peenemünde. The technical work carried out there had, in the meantime, attracted more and more attent...
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Posted on April 4, 2013
“The Americans have unified their forces into a single thrust, and make no secret of their plans to dominate outer space. But we keep our plans secret even to ourselves…” Sergei Korolev the Founder of the Soviet Space Program.
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Posted on April 11, 2013
It’s important to understand that in the late 1940s within the United States there were three concurrent programs for military rocket development. This was due to continuing inter-service rivalry between the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
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Posted on November 20, 2014
His power, influence, and responsibilities during the 1950s and 60s were all encompassing. Not only was he in charge of all space-related issues, he was also in charge of some of the design of rockets for military purposes as well. He oversaw the des...
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Posted on November 26, 2014
Sergei Korolev’s life paralleled in many ways the life of Wernher Von Braun. Like Von Braun, as a young man, Sergei Korolev was inspired to dedicate his life to the technology for space exploration after becoming acquainted with the work of a great s...
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Posted on December 4, 2014
Around noon on January 14th, Boris Chertok was alone in his office studying a folder of classified mail that had accumulated during the past few days. He had asked not to be disturbed. Suddenly his subordinate ran in and shouted, “Sergey Pavlovich di...
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Posted on June 30, 2016
The Space Age had barely begun when Soviet engineers started planning ways to destroy enemy satellites. Some Western analysts have speculated that a design for an anti-satellite weapon system was started at Korolev’s OKB-1 bureau as early as 1956…
Tagged:Baikonur, Boris Yeltsi, Exploration, History, Icbm, Is Mu, Istrebitel Sputnikov, Khrushchev, Korolev, Lc31, Leonid Brezhnev, Myasishev, Okb 1, Polyachenko, Polyot, R 36, R 7, R7, Rca, Rocket, Saint, Satellite Interceptor, Satellite Killer, Soviet, Space, Sputnik, Spy Plane, U 2, Ur 200, Vladimir Chelome, Weapons, Yuri Andropov