Portrayals in Fiction
The first portrayal of Korolev in Soviet cinema was made in the 1972 film Taming of the Fire, in which Korolev was played by renowned Russian actor Kirill Lavrov. He was played by Steve Nicolson in the 2005 BBC co-produced docu-drama Space Race. In 2011 the British writer Rona Munro produced the play Little Eagles on Korolev's life – its premiere was from 16 April to 7 May 2011, in an RSC production at the Hampstead Theatre, with Korolev played by Darrel D'Silva and Yuri Gagarin by Dyfan Dwyfor.
Korolev appeared briefly in a film-within-a-film in the The Right Stuff during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, inside one of the President's conference rooms.
The science fiction novel by Paolo Aresi titled Korolev was published in the Italian magazine series Urania in April 2011.
The story The Chief Designer by Andy Duncan is a fictionalized account of Korolev's career.
In the ninth season of the science-fiction series Stargate SG-1, a Daedalus-class battle spaceship was handed over to the Russian government in exchange for one of the "Stargates", and the spaceship was rechristened the VMF Korolev. Since the existence of the Stargate program was deeply classified, the existence of both the Korolev and her eventual destruction were kept unknown to the wider populace of the Earth.
In Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Green Mars, a prison town on Mars is renamed Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov during a revolution, in the scientist's honor.
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