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may 10, 1951 - First short-range ballistics missile (USSR)

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Sergei Korolev, lead Soviet rocket engineer of the 1940s and '50s, builds the R-1, the first short-range ballistics missile, thus starting the Space Race.

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may 10, 1951
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~ 74 years ago