Editing Energia (corporation) (section)

== History ==
The company was founded on 26 August 1946<ref name=Founding/>{{efn|The book "Rockets and People" [https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/635963main_RocketsPeopleVolume2-ebook.pdf Volume 2], p. 16, give the founding day as 16 August.}} and has been known successively as: 
* '''Special [[design bureau|Design Bureau]] number 1 of RD Institute number 88''' ({{langx|ru|ОКБ-1 НИИ-88}} or '''OKB-1''' of [[NII-88]])
* '''TsKBEM''' (Central Design Bureau of Experimental Machine Building) <ref>{{cite journal|year=2010|title=Tragic Tangle|journal=System Failure Case Studies|volume=4|issue=10|publisher=NASA |url=http://nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudyFile/Download/154/|access-date=30 August 2012|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408113510/http://nsc.nasa.gov/SFCS/SystemFailureCaseStudyFile/Download/154/|archive-date=8 April 2013}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
* '''NPO Energia'''
* '''S. P. Korolev RSC Energia'''

It is named after the first chief of its design bureau [[Sergei Korolev]] (1946–1966). His successors as chief designers were: [[Vasily Mishin]] (1966–1974), [[Valentin Glushko]] (1974–1989), {{ill|Yuriy Semenov|ru|Семёнов, Юрий Павлович}} (1989–2005), [[Nikolai Sevastianov]] (2005–2007). Its President and Chief designer was [[United Rocket and Space Corporation|Vitaly Lopota]], until 1 August 2014.<ref name=sd20140802/>

Korolev's design bureau was, beginning with the first artificial satellite [[Sputnik 1]] and the first crewed spaceflight of [[Vostok 1]], responsible for a major part of the Soviet space program. It was the main rival of [[OKB-52]] (later known as [[NPO Mashinostroyeniya|TsKBM]], then the design bureau of [[Vladimir Chelomei]]) during the [[Soviet crewed lunar programs]] and the [[Salyut programme|Soviet space station program]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Almaz|url=http://www.russianspaceweb.com/almaz.html|publisher=RussianSpaceWeb.com}}</ref> OKB-1 was among others responsible for the development of the crewed [[Soyuz spacecraft]] and its [[Soyuz rocket]], the [[N1 (rocket)|N1 "Moon Shot" rocket]], large parts of the [[Salyut programme|Salyut space station program]], the uncrewed [[Progress (spacecraft)|Progress resupply craft]] and designed the [[Energia (rocket)|Energia rocket]] for the [[Buran programme|Buran space shuttle program]]. Since the early beginnings of the [[Luna programme]] it designed many space probes, among others of the [[Venera]], [[Zond program|Zond]] and [[Mars program]].

The company continues to dominate a large part of the Russian space program, and a considerable part of the World's space program, with its Soyuz spacecraft having become the only crewed spacecraft conducting regular flights and the exclusive crew transport vehicle for the [[International Space Station]] from the [[Space Shuttle retirement]] in 2011 and until the maiden flight of [[Crew Dragon Endeavour]] in 2020. 
The Chinese [[Shenzhou program]] is the only other program in the world with planned semi-regular crewed spaceflights.

The President of [[RSC Energia|Energia]], [[Vitaly Lopota]], was removed from his post as president on August 1, 2014. [[Dmitry Rogozin]] indicated that this was the start of "long-awaited personnel reform in [the Russian] space industry... Tough times require tough decisions".<ref name="sd20140802">{{cite news|title=Chief of RSC Energia removed from his post|url=http://spacedigest.net/en/020814_energia/ |access-date=2014-08-03|publisher=Space Digest|date=2014-08-02|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808053438/http://spacedigest.net/en/020814_energia/|archive-date=August 8, 2014}}</ref> Lopota was offered the position of vice president for technological development in the [[United Rocket and Space Corporation]],<ref name=sd20140802/> the new company formed in 2013 to re-nationalize the Russian space industry.<ref name="pa20131009">{{cite news|last=Messier|first=Doug|title=Rogozin Outlines Plans for Consolidating Russia's Space Industry|url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/10/09/rogozin-outlines-plans-consolidating-russias-space-industry/|access-date=2014-08-03|newspaper=Parabolic Arc|date=2013-10-09|archive-date=10 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610155101/http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/10/09/rogozin-outlines-plans-consolidating-russias-space-industry/|url-status=dead}}</ref>