When Soviet engineers put the first satellite,

Sputnik

,

into orbit

,

Nikita Khrushchev

rubbed his hands in the Kremlin.

I was short of ideas about what the next step should be.

He called the chief engineer,

Sergei Korolyov,

and prop

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