Sergei Korolev, Soviet spaceflight pioneer
Archival footage of Sergei Korolev (1907-1966), known as \The Chief Designer\", sketching a rocket. Korolev led the early Soviet space program, overseeing the design and launch of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957, and Yuri Gagarin's first human spaceflight in 1961. At the time of his sudden death on 14th January 1966, he was working on reaching the Moon."