Sergei Korolev: The Most Important Russian You've Never Heard Of
In the early 1960’s the Soviet space program was on a roll. They launched the first satellite into space. They launched the first man and woman into space. They conducted the first space walk. Then, around 1966, everything changed. The momentum they had ground to a halt, and the Americans quickly surpassed them in the…
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