Space race Episode 1 Part 1

[fuzzynippleman]

Fuck that VON BRAUN! "Haunted by his nazi past" Oh, come on. Von Braun didn't give a shit about the nazis. He didn't care about humans at all. He cared about advancing his research and getting the fame from it. He was a sociopath and not a "haunted" man. Fuck the spin. Give me truth instead.

[mopako10]

Russia thank you for winning world war 2!

[CommyNiST94]

Ha! The Americans had everything! Even former fascists did not hesitate to draw! And we were just people, and anyway, we won!

[00asha00]

if the V2 was a terror weapon, then what was the Little Boy?

[roystonsaxon]

I think they were referring to the staff at The Pentagon in the plural, hence 'The Pentagon want'. I should know. I'm British.

[PatchesRips]

British actors! Americans would say "the Pentagon WANTS", not "the Pentagon WANT". :)

[simpsonfan13]

All this USSR vs USA bickering is pointless. Just be glad that it wasn't a swastika flag on the moon.

[darkdragon13891]

@simpsonfan13 agreed.

[VATkhamu]

None of the soviets or americans had won. mankind lost. by the death of those two masterminds mankind had lost. it is 2011. still 89 years to the end of this century. those two mastermind showed us the orbit, the satellite. there is phrase "beyond the limit". those two genius are two example of this "beyond the limit". think of all those matlab, autocad, pentium 4, core i7, athlon, apu. those two did not need autocad or matlab. hope by 89 years we will find another pair of those two.

[lazaruslongable]

At its peak in '66, NASA got less than 4.5% of the federal budget. For nearly 40 of its 53 years it got under 1%. And by the most conservative estimate, money invested on Apollo earned a 33% return. It was the smartest investment the US has ever made. Naturally we stopped doing it. All those annoying spinoff technologies...all those unneeded jobs...all those silly dreams...better to gnaw this planet bare and then die. It was raining soup, so we threw away our buckets. Who wants frontiers anyway?

[tdr124]

@lazaruslongable I believe a lot of it has to do with basic human complacency, Also I feel it goes back to one of the most fundamental human fears: the fear of the unknown. Unfortunately us Americans are known for complacency.

[101rocketmail]

Hitler is as smart as paint. If only he had used his smarts for something else.

[101rocketmail]

Is this sci-fic? 

[eeg10]

@101rocketmail I don't know, I'm sure it is partially dramatized, but one would really have to delve into history to truly find out what is fact and fiction. Honestly, I think it's an amazing story either way.

[wabonki]

@101rocketmail It's all true

[101rocketmail]

@wabonki Wow. I didn't even think they were that advanced in stuff that went boom yet. Humans these days.

[wabonki]

@101rocketmail indeed

[kurohorse]

una de las mejores series que he visto.....es simplemente excelente!

[Stinkinini]

The BBC are still capable of producing splendid stuff.

[XRedburn]

Billions were spent there that could be used to feed hungry children. Now aren't these politicians a piece of what you know?

[nakazatoGTR]

@XRedburn if you use funds JUST to feed people then people will stop working for food. animals have to hunt for food. humans have to work for money so to live. if government feeds people nothing will ever work.

be glad the 2 scientist went on a space race or else you arent typing on a keyboard on a network that was initially designed to help track space craft worldwide easier, through a computer whose ancestors helped stabilize and navigate the early spacecraft.

[MultiDas123]

if russia had more money to give to the space programs russian could of landed in the moon before the U.S

[mrmishonka]

@MultiDas123 if russia had the money that nasa had they could have landed on the sun.

[MrGyro04]

@mrmishonka ohh come one

don´t say such silly things !!!!

it is imposible

[mrmishonka]

@MrGyro04 me, you, the wall and the idiots know its impossible.... my point was that russia did things on a much smaller budget that the usa and given more funds they could have achieved much much more.

[MrGyro04]

@mrmishonka if you think so...

i respect your opinion but in my mind the USA were technicly the number one after Korolev died !

[YamaKazoo]

@mrmishonka lol, thats genius :D

[1Nekit1]

@mrmishonka so true!

[BetheHans]

@mrmishonka: You are either really crazy or have a very poor knowledge of science. The surface of the sun is 5800K which is 5527 Celcius. That is more than enough to evaporate any spacecraft that orbits (don't event talk about landing on the sun) close to the sun even if that spacecraft is made of the best heat-withstanding material.

[Alvious]

@BetheHans No Problem! They'd have gone at night.

[godscuttingyoudown]

@mrmishonka If the Germans had the money Nasa had they would already be negotiating with aliens on their home worlds

[njdevil281]

@mrmishonka And if the Russian Space Agency had as much publicity as Nasa it would have been shut down for safety violations.

[tsontakiasful]

if sergey korolev had some years and little more technology support he would land to the mars in 1969 not to the moon. just notice that he landed to moon in 1959 and venus in 1961. he was a great mind but he was alone.

[cosmicexplorer22]

saddening, the first quest to space was based on ideological conflict. if only we could stop using our resources and efforts on war and focus on space exploration and technology.

[Vasyukov]

@cosmicexplorer22 Ironically, 1 of the only positive legacies to come out the cold war were the achievements of space exploration by both sides. The intense political/ideological rivalries between the superpowers provided the impetus and resources to fuel space exploration. But in the absence of the cold war there is no longer that same political pressure to compete with each other - so unfortunately resources get diverted elsewhere

[Yseulte]

I want flying cars!!! It's 2010. They promised me flying cars!

[cwood4ever]

NASA wastes so much money. Space needs to be privatized and corporations need to get into the space race. If this will happen we can see the average human in space soon.

[167349productions]

@akropiss yes, i know that.

please accept my friend request.

[167349productions]

@akropiss yeah i know that.

but it was first in use in 49 right?

[167349productions]

The soviet union won the race . period.

[DTanza]

@167349productions They made it to space first, we made it to the moon first, the space race officially ended when a Soviet and American space capsule docked in space. It was a tie.

[167349productions]

@DTanza when you say they for me it means the other way around because i'm soviet. but yes, it was a tie, but strangely after that NASA became the dominant - why? no one knows.

[DTanza]

@167349productions Yes, we do know. The Soviet Union ran out of money to fund their space program. It's the same reason they backed out of the Cold War. Lack of funding.

[cwood4ever]

@167349productions The USA won the space race fool. The soviets won the first few rounds but in the end the USA landed on the moon and have done things miles ahead of the soviets or Russians now. sorry you lose

[167349productions]

@cwood4ever you are wrong.

one small victory of landing on the moon is not equal to many big victories like launching to space the first satellite, creature, human. then the first luner satellite, first satellite of mars and the first space walk.

sorry to feed you s**t

[simpsonfan13]

@167349productions Keep believing the propaganda of a dead state, you fool. The soviets won many battles but lost the war.

[makemap]

@cwood4ever If USA won why haven't we have Space Cargo ships, Battle cruisers, etc? US did not in fact won, they screw themselves over instead.

[cwood4ever]

@cwood4ever We made it to the mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn­nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn and back, we also made star wars and STAR trek hello

[JakeL33T989]

@cwood4ever they made it to space first

we made it to the moon first

all is equal

[RAIDEN123524]

@cwood4ever Really like what?

[MrUpturbo]

@cwood4ever Americans have done things miles away ahead of the soviets? Why Americans flying on the Russian Rockets like "Proton and Soyuz" ?

[cwood4ever]

@MrUpturbo it saves money

[167349productions]

why does the soldier in 6:08 has an AK47?

this is an event from 1944.

the AK47 was invented in 1949.

stupid BBC

[xbillybrownx]

@167349productions That's not AK - 47. It's PPSH 41.

[167349productions]

@xbillybrownx youre correct.

SORRY BBC!

[TheWELSHGUARD]

Thanks for the upload can't go wrong with a bit of history and science