Why was sergei korolev sent to gulag
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Scientist of the Day - Sergei Korolev
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, a Soviet rocket engineer, was born on Jan. 12, 1907. He became interested in flying and designing airplanes at an early age, and was an active pilot when he met a rocket enthusiast, Friedrikh Tsander, who in 1931 formed a group for investigating the possibility of space travel via rockets. The organization was called GIRD, which stood, after translation, for the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion. There is no indication that Korolev had his eyes on space before 1931, but he soon became an enthusiast, and before long, a leader in the group. In 1933, Korolev was in charge when the first Soviet rocket was successfully launched, and shortly thereafter, the first liquid-fueled rocket, all in 1933. This was 7 years after Robert Goddard had launched his rocket in the United States, and several years after the Germans had done so.
Sergei Korolev, photograph, 1938, just before his arrest (thisdayinaviation.com)
GIRD was a state-supported organization; in 1934, it was combined with another rocket group, GDL,
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Sergei Korolev
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907-1966) is widely regarded as the founder of the Soviet space program. Involved in pre-World War II studies of rocketry in the USSR, Korolev, like many of his colleagues, went through Stalin's prisons and later participated in the search for rocket technology in occupied Germany. His incredible energy, intelligence, belief in the prospects of space flight, managerial abilities and almost mythical skills in decision-making made him the head of the first Soviet rocket development center, known today as RKK Energia. According to many of his contemporaries, Korolev deserves most credit for turning rocket weapons into an instrument of space exploration and making the Soviet Union the world's first space-faring nation.
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At the pinnacle of his career, Sergei Korolev re-enacts for the camera historic commands for the liftoff of the Vostok spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin onboard in 1961, which opened human exploration of space.
Sergei Korolev was born on December 30, 1906 (January 12
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Sergei P. Korolev (1906-1966)
Sergei P. Korolev (1906-1966) was trained in aeronautical engineering at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and, after receiving a secondary education, co-founded the Moscow rocketry organization GIRD (Gruppa Isutcheniya Reaktivnovo Dvisheniya, Group for Investigation of Reactive Motion). Like the VfR (Verein fuer Raumschiiffahrt, Society for Spaceship Travel) in Germany, and Robert H. Goddard in the United States, the Russian organizations were by the early 1930s testing liquid-fueled rockets of increasing size. In Russia, GIRD lasted only two years before the military, seeing the potential of rockets, replaced it with the RNII (Reaction Propulsion Scientific Research Institute). RNII developed a series of rocket-propelled missiles and gliders during the 1930s, culminating in Korolev's RP-318, Russia's first rocket propelled aircraft. Before the aircraft could make a rocket propelled flight, however, Korolev and other aerospace engineers were thrown into the Soviet prison system in 1937-1938 during the peak of Stalin's purges. Korolev at first sp
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