flight possible had been a top priority for over a decade with both peaceful and military objectives siggy could go along with talented specialists like but he told masterminded the soviet rocket program that emerged after the second world war as with their rivals in the us this soviets first developed rockets based on the german v. two that it was known as the r one first tested in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight soviet engineers work simultaneously on original designs that would create new rockets in quick succession within a decade to first of the now famous r seven family would be ready to launch sputnik . yeah. for me the seven rule with all its details especially the control system and its modification was like a lot of. money factor i would say they need. here but we will do all in love with the rocket launch progressed incredibly quickly. but the first rockets were designed to manufactured within two years. thanks to the efforts of his build is that with the design turned out to be so good. even today only rochas based only original construction of the. a used for russia. on