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The operation continues, a blood vessel ruptures, a hemorrhage begins, and Korolev&#8217;s heart, already weakened in the labor camps, fails. They cannot ventilate him because of the jaw fractured in the Gulag. On January 14, he is declared dead. The Soviet Space Program will never be the same again. It will have other designers, planners, politicians, administrators, and visionaries, but never all of these things in one person. 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