"Why congratulate me? We are miners, no one knows our names, we work underground."
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"The Soviet space engineer, Sergey Korolev, who inspires Elon Musk" in ABC News (17 October 2021)
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Sergei Korolev
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (Russian: Сергей Павлович Королёв, Ukrainian: Сергі́й Па́влович Корольо́в) (12 January 1907 – 14 January 1966) was a lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. He was involved in the development of the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, launching Laika, Sputnik 3, Belka and Strelka, and the first human being, Yuri Gagar
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