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Buran (spacecraft)
Buran (Буран, "Snowstorm") was a Soviet reusable space orbiter developed by NPO Molniya. It made a single, fully automated uncrewed flight in 1988, before cancellation in 1993.
Roscosmos
Roscosmos (Роскосмос), also called the Russian Federal Space Agency, is the state corporation running Russia's civil space program, created in 1992 and reorganized in 2015.
Sergei Korolev (Серге́й Па́влович Королёв)
Sergei Korolev (Сергей Павлович Королёв) was a Soviet rocket engineer who led the design of Sputnik 1 and Yuri Gagarin's 1961 spaceflight, known publicly only as the Chief Designer.
Soviet space program
The Soviet space program, known as Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR, was the USSR's state-run spaceflight effort from 1946 until 1991, which put the first satellite, Sputnik, into orbit in 1957.