Xeni’s 100th birthday shout-out to Soviet architect of space Sergei Korolev (January 12th 1907) reminded me of the piece I did on him for Discovery’s (now long dead) “Dead Inventors” column in 1997. I wrestled its bits from the maw of the Wayback Machine and reposted it here. Unfortunately, the videos that accompanied it appear to be lost to the datasmog.
