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He was also always committed to his initial goal - space exploration based
on Tsiolkovsky's ideas and his own plans. He launched manned lunar
programs, the piloted Soyuz spaceship, orbital refueling craft, and upper
stage rocket transfer vehicles. Korolev was designing manned spacecraft
for flights around the Earth, and to other planets of the solar system.
Having set up a new direction in missile or space technologies in his OKB,
Korolev usually transferred it to other organizations, and appointed his
colleagues and students to supervise it. Thus, Mikhail Yangel was put in
charge of special OKB 586 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, to design systems of
land-based ballistic missiles and space vehicles.
OKB-1's Affiliate 3 was set up in the city of Kyibyshev (Samara) on the
Volga. Later on, it was transformed into a central specialized design
bureau (TsSKB) headed by Chief Designer Dmitry Kozlov. The Progres Plant
was part of it. TsSKB was charged with producing and upgrading the famous
Korolev's Seven - the R-7A missile. Now, 50 years after its construction,
its versions continue being used in many Russian and international space
programs. The same design bureau developed the first domestic
camera-carrying satellites. Credit for the idea of these satellites goes
to Korolev. Their subsequent development provided material and technical
foundations for the adoption of all treaties on reduction of nuclear
weapons and missiles.
OKB-1's eastern Affiliate 2 was established in the city of Krasnoyarsk in
Siberia, and later on renamed OKB-10 (Chief Designer Mikhail Reshetnev).
Its task was to develop space-based systems of communication and
navigation. OKB 385 was set up in the city of Zlatoust in the Chelyabinsk
Region in the southern Urals to test produce sea-based missiles (Chief
Designer Viktor Makeyev).
The father of cosmonautics Konstantin Tsiolkovsky wrote: "The chief motive
of my life is to do something useful for people, to bring humanity at
least one step forward, not to waste my life for nothing..." These words
fully apply to Sergei Korolev, just as his own description of Tsiolkovsky:
He "...was a man, who lived far ahead of his century, as a genuine and
great scientist should do."
Source: RIA Novosti
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