TITLE
Sergei Korolev and the Soviet Space Program
PUB. DATE
July 2002
SOURCE
Space Flight: Crossing the Last Frontier;2002, p92
SOURCE TYPE
Book
DOC. TYPE
Book Chapter
ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 of the book "Space Flight: Crossing the Last Frontier" by Jason Richie is presented. It focuses on the life and innovations made by the Russian innovator Sergei Pavlovich Korolev in aeronautics. Korolev was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine and got enrolled in the Kiev Polytechnical Institute in Ukraine to study aeronautical engineering. Korolev was a codesigner of the Soviet Union's first liquid-fuel rocket and guided the development of the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile.
ACCESSION #
36578483
