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    The R-7 Semyorka (Russian: Р-7 Семёрка), officially the GRAU index 8K71, was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental...
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    The R-7A Semyorka, GRAU index 8K74, was an early Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile derived from the earlier R-7 Semyorka. It was the only member...
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    The R-7 (Russian: Р-7) family of rockets is a series of rockets, derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile...
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  • This is a list of launches made by the R-7 Semyorka ICBM, and its derivatives. All launches are orbital satellite launches, unless stated otherwise. References...
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    1967, superseded by the R-12. The R-7 Rocket was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War as the R-7 Semyorka (Russian: Р-7 Семёрка). It was the world's...
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  • in space exploration, including the first intercontinental missile (R-7 Semyorka) that launched the first satellite (Sputnik 1) and sent the first animal...
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  • List of missiles (section R)
    UR-100) Semyorka (popular name for the R-7 Semyorka) Serb (SS-N-5) (NATO reporting name for the R-21) Serb (SS-N-6) (NATO reporting name for the R-27) Shahab-1...
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    Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, is a launch site used by derivatives of the R-7 Semyorka missile. Since Roscosmos' change from flying crew on the Soyuz-FG to...
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  • carried out in June 1957, which failed. The first success of the Soviet R-7 Semyorka in August gave the program new urgency, leading to the first successful...
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    Sputnik (rocket) (category R-7 (rocket family))
    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...
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    War both the United States' Redstone and Atlas rockets, and the Soviet R-7 Semyorka used liquid oxygen. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, the ascent stages...
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  • a vast improvement over the largely experimental 'zeroth' generation R-7 Semyorka. The missile used a hypergolic bipropellant combination of unsymmetrical...
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    satellite project, and its launch vehicle was adapted from the existing R-7 Semyorka intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) design. The name "Vostok" was...
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    common name for the missile as the "digit 5", corresponding to the R-7 Semyorka, the digit 7. The basic version of the missile was an inertially-guided submarine-launched...
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    developed in the mid-1950s to launch the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 was later adapted into space launch vehicles...
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    the first human-made object to reach outer space on June 20, 1944. The R-7 Semyorka was the first intercontinental ballistic missile. An intercontinental...
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  • Union Vostok (rocket family), family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the human spaceflight programme Vostok (crater), a...
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    Sputnik rocket, launched by the Soviet Union, which was derived from the R-7 Semyorka ICBM. On 4 October 1957, the Sputnik rocket was used to perform the world's...
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    Vostok (rocket family) (category R-7 (rocket family))
    translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and was designed for the human spaceflight programme. This family...
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  • The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. 1959 – United States President...
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  • Sputnik (rocket), an unmanned orbital carrier rocket derived from the R-7 Semyorka ICBM Sputnik; GRAU index 11A59; a rocket otherwise called Polyot (rocket)...
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    accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. A heavily modernized version of the R-7 is still used as the launch...
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    the R-5 but all subsequent missiles, including the R-7 Semyorka.: 188–189  Upon the completion of the R-5 design, work began on the nuclear-capable R-5M...
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    would not be feasible until the mid '60s. With the completion of the R-7 Semyorka ICBM, however, it became clear that a crewed mission into orbit would...
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    Luna (rocket) (category R-7 (rocket family))
    of that era, the Luna 8K72 vehicles were derived from the R-7 Semyorka design, part of the R-7 (rocket family), which was also the basis for the Vostok...
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    including flights with space dogs.: 21–23  Design work began in 1953 on the R-7 Semyorka with the requirement for a missile with a launch mass of 170 to 200 tons...
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  • RS12M2 R-29R SS-N-18 Stingray R-29RK SS-N-18 Stingray Mod 2 R-29RL MIRV-equipped/SS-N-18 Stingray Mod 3 R-29RM MIRV-equipped/SS-N-23 Skiff R-7 Semyorka / 8K71...
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  • This is a list of launches made by the R-7 Semyorka ICBM, and its derivatives between 1957 and 1959. All launches are orbital satellite launches, unless...
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    and PS-2, with two R-7 rockets (8K71), was approved, provided that the R-7 completed at least two successful test flights. The R-7 rocket was initially...
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    modifications: R-1 (missile) R-1B, R-1V, R-1D, R-1E R-2 (missile) R-5 missile, R-5M, R-11, R-11A, R-11F R-7 Semyorka, R-7A Semyorka R-9 Desna RT-1 RT-2 R-7 (rocket...
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