Space race Episode 1 Part 1

Space Race is a BBC docudrama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September and October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race up to the first landing of a man on the moon. It focusses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams.

Episode one: Race For Rockets (19441949)
We see the results of Wernher von Braun's work on the V-2 for the Nazis at Mittelwerk and Peenemünde, and his final activities within Germany during the last years of the Second World War, as both American and Soviet forces race to capture German rocket technology. When the Americans gain the upper hand by recovering von Braun and most of his senior staff, along with all their technical documents and much other materiel, we see Sergei Korolev's release from the Gulag to act as the Soviets' rocketry expert alongside former colleague Valentin Glushko, and how he is set to work bringing Soviet rocket technology up to date with that of von Braun, working with what material and personnel are left after von Braun's escape to the US.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Space
• Race
• Science
• Moon
• Wernher
• von
• Braun
• Sergey
• Korolyov
• docudrama
• Steve
• Nicolson
• Richard
• Dillane
• Valentin
• Glushko

[mrmishonka]

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

[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.

[Alvious]

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

[njdevil281]

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

[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!

[godscuttingyoudown]

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

[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.

[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?

[1Nekit1]

@mrmishonka so true!