Documentary 2007 - Declassified: Sputnik (Part 1/6)

The world changed fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, when the U.S. public heard the shocking news that the Soviet Union had successfully launched the first satellite, Sputnik I. Why didnt the U.S. beat the Soviets in this first crucial round of the space race? NOVA reveals an astonishing behind-the-scenes story of the politics and personalities that collided over the earliest efforts to get America into space, long before the founding of NASA. Anticommunist witch-hunts drove some of the nations most talented rocketry pioneers out of the country even as we welcomed Wernher von Braun and his former Nazi colleagues. With help from Walt Disney, von Brauns vision of future space travel swiftly captivated U.S. TV watchers. But even as he became the first media star of the Space Age, von Brauns attempts to build space probes were hobbled by inter-service rivalries. In Secrets of the Sputnik Race, NOVA details the previously untold story of the technological and political missteps that made the U.S. lose out to the Soviets bleeping electronic basketball.

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Education

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• NASA
• Russia
• Sputnik
• Space
• Documentary

[REPOMAN24722]

lol this is a load of crap, the USSR had the technology to get to the moon over a year before the Americans, the Americans didnt invent the thing that got them to the moon German scientists did.

[memo85ro]

То, что мы будем делать по этому поводу?

What we are going to do about this?

Answer/Ответ:

Мы собираемся поддельные посадки на Луну!

We are going to fake the Moon landing !

:))

[oxxax]

Pure propaganda

[mrvishal1000]

pure propaganda shit,they only launched their satellite 2 years after the russians launched theirs, really if they had the tech(at 1:30-1:50) y they took 2 years?? this the biggest crap and shit i have ever seen

[Jop3lius]

@evilTaker90 /watch?v=mefEKqzq8cg watch the whole thing.

[evilTaker90]

@Jop3lius So explain why the flag waved in the moon?Or the shadows going different ways?

[Jop3lius]

@memo85ro well in soviet russia piece of metal where worth more than one humanbeing, thats ur history, gladly not future, but u should really read the crushing facts about moonlanding, watch the resent pictures taken with satelite which shows the landing sights perfectly. and last, go out of the library, u dont own computer, u eat rocks and bash people cus ur living in ladas backseat.

[Jop3lius]

@evilTaker90 faked? im not american, but im pretty confinced about the proove ive seen that they have been in moon several times. You must be jealous russian or somekinda other fool. Theres actually pictures of the landing sights that where released at 2011 or something.

[SAVSAV1212]

What a crap

[stereonation1]

Wheneva americals lose, they start crying like a baby. Soviets launched first settlite. Get over it

[teslaandlyne]

We still do not have missile protection, I call for a Missile Gate.

[evilTaker90]

@REPOMAN24722 And they still didnt have the technology to make it to moon cause they faked it :D