The father of cosmonautics — Sergei Korolev

2002, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme is dedicated to Ukrainian scientist in the field of rocket engineering and cosmonautics Sergei Korolev.

The video shows Korolev giving the command to launch the rocket, the rocket taking off, and memories from colleagues, rocket and space technology tester Ivan Brovko, daughter Natalia, and mother Maria Moskalenko. archival photos and videos, Sergei Korolev with Yuri Gagarin, Korolev's report to the commission on preparations for the Vostok-3 and Vostok-4 flights, Korolev climbing the rocket stairs. Excerpts from the documentary film ‘Chief Designer’ are used.

Reference: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1907–1966) was a Ukrainian scientist and designer, a native of Zhytomyr, known as the ‘father of practical cosmonautics’. He headed the Soviet space programme, organised the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (1957) and the first human flight into space (1961). Although his achievements were appropriated by Soviet and Russian history, Korolev was Ukrainian by origin and upbringing.