Sergei Korolev Quotes

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev 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.

✵ 30. December 1906 – 14. January 1966   •   Other names Сергей Павлович Королев
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Famous Sergei Korolev Quotes

“Cosmonautics has a boundless future, its prospects are boundless, like the Universe itself!”

Original: (ru) Космонавтика имеет безграничное будущее, ее перспективы беспредельны, как сама Вселенная!,
Source: https://shkola-kletskij.oshkole.ru/news/93283.html "Всем в космос"

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

As quoted in 1957, Red Star in Orbit by James Oberg (1981)

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

SOS im All. Pannen, Probleme und Katastrophen der bemannten Raumfahrt [SOS in Space. Breakdowns, Problems and Disasters in Manned Spaceflight], pg. 163 (2000)

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

Response when congratulated with the fifth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight
"The Soviet space engineer, Sergey Korolev, who inspires Elon Musk" in ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/International/soviet-space-engineer-sergey-korolev-inspires-elon-musk/story?id=80602926 (17 October 2021)

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