what is he awarded for?
Korolev was twice honored as Hero of Socialist Labour,  he was also a Lenin Prize winner .
Sergei Korolev
Among his awards, Korolev was twice honored as Hero of Socialist Labour, in 1956 and 1961. He was also a Lenin Prize winner in 1971
where did the launching of sputnik take place It was launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit who was responsible for the launch? The Soviet Union when was it launched? 4 October 1957 was it a part of any space program? UNANSWERABLE was the union involved in any other such program? Yes, On April 12, 1961, the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was sent to the space. He once flew around the Earth and successfully landed in the Kazakh steppe. where was this cosmonaut from? Klushino where can you find his statues? located in the town named after him as well as in Orenburg, Cheboksary, Irkutsk, Izhevsk, Some statues are A statue of Gagarin was unveiled at Admiralty Arch in The Mall in London. with what position did he begin his air force journey? Gagarin was commissioned a lieutenant in the Soviet Air Forces did the satellite have any replicas? At least two vintage duplicates of Sputnik 1 exist, built apparently as backup units. who constructed the satellite? Chief Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev proposed a developmental plan for an artificial satellite was this scientist imprisoned? Yes, Korolev was arrested by the NKVD on 27 June 1938 after being accused of deliberately slowing the work of the research institute by Ivan Kleymenov, Georgy Langemak, leaders of the institute who were executed in January, and Valentin Glushko, who was arrested in March.
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Sergei Korolev [SEP] Awards and honours
Among his awards, Korolev was twice honored as Hero of Socialist Labour, in 1956 and 1961. He was also a Lenin Prize winner in 1971, and was awarded the Order of Lenin three times, the Order of the Badge of Honour and the Medal "For Labour Valour". In 1958 he was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1969 and 1986, the USSR issued 10 kopek postage stamps honoring Korolev. In addition he was made an Honorary Citizen of Korolyov and received the Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". Sergei Khrushchev claimed that the Nobel Prize committee attempted to award Korolev but the award was turned down by Khrushchev in order to maintain harmony within the Council of Chief Designers.