Space race Episode 1 Part 4

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.

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• Sergey
• Korolyov
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• Steve
• Nicolson
• Richard
• Dillane
• Valentin
• Glushko

[boovidge]

@deanmullen10 The Soviet Union was a union between many countries of which Russia was the largest. Stalin himself wasn't Russian. After the collpase of the Soviet Union, Russia and the other smaller countries became independent states. If people say 'Russia' when referring to the Soviet period they are usually making a lazy mistake in a similar way to if someone says 'England' when they are referring to the United Kingdom.

[matt3360]

again bits missing

[korbindallis]

@mopako10

Von Braun didnt have nothing to do with the Hiroshima atomic bomb he was a rocket engineer

[mopako10]

Von Braun fucked up big time. Giving those rockets to USA. Poor Hiroshima, you c how is it when something powerful as nuke goes in bed hands... :(

[t5239857289578947594]

Von Braun looks like William Dafoe in some angles.

[UnDead483]

Does anybody know what piece Glushko is playing on the piano at 7:20

[pumbkinpie320]

The Soviet Union was Russia and what Russia has occupied and later collapsed

[mrdashes1]

@boovidge Wrong

[ecapricorn666]

@tafka100 If you don't know history, don't speak!!!

[tafka100]

@boovidge

The soviet union was russia and the countries russia had occupied.It was no union.

[matt3360]

Its good to have it online but my dvd version has so much more