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R-7 / Semyorka
First ICBM; ancestor of every crewed Soviet launcher
R-7 / Semyorka in the timeline
1957-05-15 First R-7 launch
The R-7 Semyorka, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, makes its maiden flight. Its descendants (Vostok, Voskhod, Soyuz) will fly for seventy years.