1907 Sergei Korolev born Ukraine
1930 aircraft designer
Late 30’s interested in rockets…
- Marshal Mikhael Tukhachevsky sponsored Gas Dynamics Laboratory in Petroplavsakaya
- Reaction Propulsion Lab, Central Moscow
- Valentin Glushko, designer of thrust chambers/fuel pumps
- Korolev – overall vehicle design
1933 Soviet Army Marshall Tukhachevsky begins major consolidation of rocket programmes for military applications
June 1937 Tukhachevsky is arrested & executed. Korolev is sentenced to ten years in Siberia
June 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia
Korolev and others brought back to work on design in aircraft factories as prisoners
Sept 1945 Korolev on mission to Germany to claim remnants of V2 programme
1950s Korolev & Glushko develop range of rockets and missiles
May 31 1955 work begins Baikonur as ICBM base
1956 Korolev in control of his own industrial empire based around OKB1 (Special Design Bureau) Kaliningrad, near Moscow
August 3 1957 R-7 (Semyorka) first successful launch, Baikonur
October 4 1957 Sputnik launch
November 3 1957 Laika
January 31 1958 American Explorer 1 Van Allen belt discovery
Autumn 1959 Korolev begins cosmonaut selection
May 15 1960 First Vostok prototype launched & lost in space
June 18 1960 – meets Gagarin
July 28 Chaika & Lisicha dog mission explodes after launch, witnessed by cosmonauts
Aug 19 Strelka & Belka dog mission successful
Sept 19 1960 Korolev’s proposal for manned mission approved
Oct 10 1960 Rival R-16 prototype explodes on launch pad killing Marshall Nedelin and hundreds of ground crew
December 22nd 4th dd mission aborted during climb -dogs survive emergency ejection. Dog capsule rescue mission
March 9, 1961 first of two ‘Ivan Ivanovich’ dummy missions
April 3 faked scenes of launch preparations filmed
April 7 Final selection of Gagarin to make first flight
April 12 Vostock launch scheduled date
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