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From CNN.com - Science & Space:
MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- His work and even his name were once top Soviet secrets. It wasn't until after his death that Sergei Korolyov became known to the world as the man who led the team that put the world's first satellite into orbit and sent the first human into space.
Speaking at a Kremlin ceremony honoring Korolyov on his 100th birth anniversary Friday, President Vladimir Putin hailed him as a "true pioneer and the author of the first, bright space exploits."
"We are marking the jubilee of a man whose personality has astonished several generations of people not just in Russia, but the entire world," he said.
Korolyov's stature is burnished by the years of tragedy he suffered -- years of torture, starvation and hard labor in the Gulag -- before he became chief of the Soviet rocket program.
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