Picture: Monument of Korolev in kazakstan rocket site (70)

After Korolev put the first man in space, his progress slowed. Korolev started losing the favor of the Soviet government, and in 1964, when Khrushchev was removed as first secretary of the Soviet union and replaced by Leonid Brehznev, Korolev began to lose power (7). Korolev continued to work on rocket technology but he didn't have the influence he used to. Korolev died on January 14, 1966 from complications during surgery (18) and thus did not get to see the Apollo 11 launch or land. Korolev had to live most of his life in secret. But after his death, Korolev's story of surviving a Soviet work camp and using his boyhood love of airplanes to propel his barrier-breaking accomplishment of sending a man into space could be revealed to the world.