Korolev was set to work duplicating the Nazi V-2 rocket. In fact, his V-2 knockoff — the R-2 — was a substantial improvement over the original. His success bought him some leeway with his ...

Over the years, much of the credit—some might say too much—has gone to Sergei Korolev, Tikhonravov’s friend and the chief designer of the rocket that lofted Sputnik into orbit. But Korolev ...

In 1946, the man who would later become the Soviets’ chief designer for space nurtured ambitions of building his own rocket team. “Korolev had a negative attitude toward German participation ...

MOSCOW, April 16. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin likened US entrepreneur Elon Musk to Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev and said such people are not born very often. "You know ...

The orbit-raising burn was performed by the Progress 91 spacecraft ... to provide an extra margin of safety between the space ...

TASS/. The video recorder and telemetry data from the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle that malfunctioned on October 11 were delivered to the Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the Russian space ...

Putin compared Musk to the late Soviet rocket pioneer, Sergei Korolev. Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk as an outstanding individual for his work in space travel on Thursday.

MOSCOW, April 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the ...