Word: korolev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispatch to the Washington Star last week, Veteran Moscow Correspondent Edmund Stevens traced the Soyuz tragedy back to the moment in 1966 when Soviet Space Chief Sergei Korolev died of complications after surgery for cancer. It was Korolev, said Stevens, who was largely responsible for Russia's early manned space program; his stature and prestige shielded him from political and economic expediency and enabled him to insist upon thorough testing of new spacecraft before they were flown...
...Korolev's successors apparently could not resist mounting pressures for 1967 space spectaculars, Stevens reported, and they agreed to a Soyuz mission timed to coincide with May Day celebrations. Thus, despite an earlier unmanned Soyuz flight that is believed to have come to grief, Soyuz 1 may have been launched with Komarov aboard before it was fully qualified for a manned mission. To celebrate the November 1917 revolution, another Soyuz mission was planned to put men in orbit around the moon...
Died. Sergei Korolev, 59, long-rumored head of the Soviet space program, now identified by Tass as the hitherto anonymous designer of the 1957 Sputnik and 1959 Lunik satellites as well as the Vostok and Voskhod spacecrafts used in the world's first manned flight (Yuri Gagarin, in 1961) and first space walk (Alexei Leonov, last March); of complications following surgery; in Moscow...
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