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ARTICLES RELATED TO Soviet space program - Firsts | | | |  Soviet space program - Firsts: Encyclopedia II - Soviet space program - FirstsTwo days after the United States announced its intention to launch a satellite, on July 31, 1956, the Soviet Union announced its intention to do the same. Sputnik 1 became the first satellite with its launch October 4, 1957. It stunned citizens the world over.
The Soviet space program led the space race from 1957 through 1967:
First ICBM, the R-7
First satellite, Sputnik 1
First animal to enter orbit in space: Laika on Sputnik 2
First person in space and in orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 ...
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| | | | Soviet space program - Firsts: Encyclopedia II - Soviet space program - Origins The theory of space exploration was well-established in the USSR before the Second World War by the writings of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; but as with the American programme, it was founded on the advances made by Hermann Oberth and Werner von Braun in Germany during the war. The USSR captured the V-2 production sites and several hundred technicians, along with several rockets. Under the direction of Dimitri Ustinov, the designer and engineer Sergei Korolev inspected the rockets; aided by the German prisoners, they built a replica of the R-1. T ...
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