Young Sergei Korolev designed gliders and became a pilot. From his childhood he dreamt of traveling to the stars.

A quote about Korolev: "His dream was the Moon. When I was a girl I'd read Voyage to the Moon by Jules Verne. He saw this book and told me, 'You know in your lifetime a human will walk on the Moon.' I said, 'That's impossible.' But he looked at me very seriously and said, 'No. Please remember this day - I tell you, man will walk on the moon.' " (click to hear quote)

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev
is in the cabin of an airframe
designed by him at the 6th All-Union
Airframe Competitions, Crimea Region 1929.

Korolev on Plains of Baykonur
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