Sergei Korolev

Built the rockets that got the Soviets to space first during the 1950s Space Race—Sputnik, Gagarin, the whole early-lead playbook. Korolev's R-7 and subsequent designs made him the architect of Soviet spaceflight supremacy, at least until the Americans caught up.
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