R-7 Semyorka | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-07

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00:01:14 1 Description
00:02:37 2 Development
00:10:08 3 Operational history
00:12:56 4 Variants
00:14:54 5 Operators
00:15:14 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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The R-7  (Russian: Р-7 "Семёрка") was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. The R-7 made 28 launches between 1957 and 1961, but was never deployed operationally. A derivative, the R-7A, was deployed from 1959 to 1968. To the West it was known by the NATO reporting name SS-6 Sapwood and within the Soviet Union by the GRAU index 8K71. In modified form, it launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit, and became the basis for the R-7 family which includes Sputnik, Luna, Molniya, Vostok, and Voskhod  space launchers, as well as later Soyuz variants.
The widely used nickname for the R-7 launcher, "Semyorka", means "the 7" in Russian.