| Korolev, Sergei Pavlovich (1907-1966) (857 words) |
 | Korolev spent months in transit on the Trans-Siberian railway and on a prison vessel at Magadan, followed by a year in the Kolyma gold mines, the most dreaded part of the Gulag. |
| In September 1953, Korolev proposed the development of an artificial satellite to this committee arguing that the R-7-launched flight of Sputnik 1 would serve as a powerful public demonstration of the Soviet Unions ICBM capability. |
| Korolevs legacy is the town named for him and Energia Rocket & Space Corporation (RCS Energia) – the modern Russian business organization that evolved from Korolëvs design bureau - which built Mir and is now a partner with NASA in the production of the International Space Station. |
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