BBC Space Race (2005): Episode four: Race For The Moon (1964--1969)
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Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. Meanwhile, despite a few notable successes such as the first space walk by Alexei Leonov, the Soviet space programme struggles to keep up amid internal strife. Glushko and Korolev permanently fall out in an argument about fuel; Korolev turns to Nikolai Kuznetsov to develop engines instead. Kuznetsov delivers the NK-33, very efficient but much less powerful than the Americans' F-1. The Soviet program suffers further blows when Korolev dies during surgery, Gagarin dies in a jet crash, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills Vladimir Komarov, and the prototype booster for the moon shot, the N-1 rocket, fails to successfully launch. In America, von Braun has continuing difficulties with the Saturn V, especially combustion instability in the large F-1 engine, but these are ultimately overcome almost by brute force at great expense, and the rocket successfully launches the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 8, and the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11. The final episode finishes with brief textual summaries of the remaining careers of the various people involved.
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it been over twenty years and nobody gets older
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What a load of bullcrap. The moon landings were obivously hoaxed. Like cmon, who will believe in this nonsense? Everyone knows that that the moon landing was faked in a studio on Mars.
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24:39 Sergei Korolev decided TO TAKE THE Apollo WITH HIM Before He go
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what a waste of time and money!
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but then too we can't ignore his knowledge skills and the synergy of his. I would like to see his whole story as a movie, I am Indian but am saluting him.
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guys it seems that the German helped him to grow,sorry but its tru
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My God, how can anyone read through some of the stuff on this thread and take it seriously... there's a bunch conspiracy psychopaths running loose...
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he should have said
one small step for man... one giant bill for mankind -
The soviets definitely won the space race for me. Overcoming strained budgets, intense political pressure and shoddy manufacturing they only lost out on the moon. Cosmonauts also definitely had it more dangerous than astronauts, as this series proves.
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15:58 did he say saturn v doing shit?
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Awesome 4 episodes offering deep insights into turbulent and yet the most fascinating period of the Cold War
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Yanks only got there due to Nazi scientists. Without captain teflon, sorry vonBraun they didnt have the skills or knowledge to beat the USSR. In fact if korolev had been given a decent budget he would have got the russians there first. For me Korolev is the hero here.
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Thanks Soviet space program, you gave us NASA
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It was Glushko's weaselling role in Korolev's denunciation that cannot be forgiven. Korolev spent time in the Siberian gulag in conditions so severe that they undoubtedly contributed to his early death.
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Goose bumps much.
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Korolev is an unsung hero. Glushko deserves to be forgotten. Kuznetsov was an underfunded genius. Once the Industrial, economic and engineering might of the US was harnessed in going to the moon the Soviets could never hope to keep up.
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The Americans beat the Russians to the Moon, but the Russians beat them to space
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