But that image would be entirely wrong, as Korolev thought the idea of a countdown absurd American nonsense.

不过这一场景和现实完全不符，因为科洛夫认为倒计时的想法就是荒谬的美国人的无稽之谈。

The radio crackled, and Korolev's voice came on: " How are you feeling? "

收音机噼里啪啦地响了起来，传来科洛夫的声音：“你感觉怎么样？”

But while Moscow loved the R-7 for its offensive capabilities, Korolev wanted to use it to expand mankind's horizons.

但是，尽管莫斯科政府喜欢R-7的进攻能力，但科罗列夫只想用它来扩展人类的视野。

On October 3, Korolev and his team began to  prepare for the launch.

10 月 3 日，科罗廖夫和他的团队开始准备发射。

Even today, the Russians still use the  plans Korolev had drawn up for future progress.

即使在今天，俄罗斯人仍在使用科罗廖夫制定的未来发展计划。

Korolev persuaded Khrushchev of the project's  value and ensured that it would not interfere with the missile project.

科罗廖夫说服了赫鲁晓夫该项目的价值，并保证不会干扰导弹项目。

Korolev was the man who  provided the first real successes of the Space Race.

科罗廖夫是太空竞赛的第一个真正成功者。

Korolev focused on space while another scientist,   Valentin Glushko, worked on propulsions.

Korolev 专注于太空，而另一位科学家 Valentin Glushko 则致力于推进。

But Korolev wasn't done yet. He had another goal, one so secret, so preposterous, that only a handful of people knew about it.

不过科罗列夫还没有结束，他还有另一个目标，一个如此秘密，如此荒谬，只有少数人知道的目标。

It was Korolev's  persistence that ultimately pushed the USSR to be the leader in the Space Race.

正是科罗廖夫的坚持最终推动苏联成为太空竞赛的领头羊。

After the war ended, Korolev was tasked with a new research center with  German scientists.

战争结束后，科罗廖夫受命与德国科学家一起建立一个新的研究中心。

Korolev was sentenced to ten years of hard labor  during Stalin's purges but served less than three; four months of that tenure was in  the Gulag.

在斯大林的清洗期间，科罗廖夫被判处十年苦役，但服刑时间不到三年；四个月的任期是在古拉格。

While the US was beginning to look for proposals, the USSR  already had Korolev's ideas firmly established, giving them a nearly two-year advantage.

当美国开始寻找建议时，苏联已经牢牢确立了科罗廖夫的想法，这给了他们将近两年的优势。

Korolev had helped persuade many of the commission to agree by  saying he would be able to launch before the start of the 1956 IGY.

科罗廖夫说他能够在 1956 年 IGY 开始之前发射，帮助说服了许多委员会同意。

Glushko, who  had become Korolev's nemesis after getting him arrested, took over the projects but did not have  the knowledge or abilities of the man he had once denounced.

格卢什科在科罗廖夫被捕后成为克星，他接手了这些项目，但没有他曾经谴责过的那个人的知识或能力。

When word got to Nikita Khrushchev - himself the son of peasants - that the choice had come down to a poor boy from the sticks, and a middle class intellectual, he supposedly told Korolev to forget Titov.

赫鲁晓夫本身就是农民的儿子，当他得知要从一个来自乡下的穷孩子和一个中产阶级知识分子里进行选择时，(据说)他告诉科洛夫忘掉铁托夫。

The US was trailing behind Korolev in the early  50s but had been steadily working toward getting satellites into space since the people in the  US were very interested in space exploration at the time.

美国在 50 年代初期落后于科罗廖夫，但由于当时美国人对太空探索非常感兴趣，因此一直在稳步致力于将卫星送入太空。

Korolev realized that their  current plan would not meet the targeted deadline, so at the beginning of 1957, Korolev reduced the  designs to form two simpler satellites called the PS-1 and PS-2, which were only about 220 pounds  each.

科罗廖夫意识到他们目前的计划无法如期完成，因此在 1957 年初，科罗廖夫缩减了设计以形成两颗更简单的卫星，称为 PS-1 和 PS-2，每颗仅约 220 磅。