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Sergei Korolev Quotes

1907–1966 Russia

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.

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We are all going to be shot, and there will be no obituary.

Anyone can build complicated. Our actions are determined by simplicity.

Today the dreams of the best sons of mankind have come true. The assault on space has begun.

Why congratulate me? We are miners, no one knows our names, we work underground.

The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sergei Korolev (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.