Sergei Pavlovich Korolev4 October 1959
Leads the spacecraft programme returning the first images of the Moon's far side.
Russia · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Leads the spacecraft programme returning the first images of the Moon's far side.
This factsheet is generated from stored World History Database records matching the country, broad category, detailed category and exact Event value shown above. Duplicate display records are collapsed; database wording is otherwise preserved. Source provenance varies by record, so formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.