leonid brezhnev was the leader of the soviet union when sputnik was launched.
leonid brezhnev was the leader of the soviet union when sputnik was launched.
who was the leader of the soviet union when sputnik was launched?
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the sputnik rocket was an uncrewed orbital carrier rocket designed by sergei korolev in the soviet union, derived from the r-7 semyorka icbm. on 4 october 1957, it was used to perform the world's first satellite launch, placing "sputnik 1" into a low earth orbit.









































two versions of the sputnik were built, the sputnik-ps (grau index 8k71ps), which was used to launch "sputnik 1" and later "sputnik 2", and the sputnik (8a91), which failed to launch a satellite in april 1958, and subsequently launched "3" on 15 may 1958.
sputnik (rocket)