Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
Documentary which maintains that the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts, telling the story of how the Russians led us into the space age.
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. However, the real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts.
This remarkable feature-length documentary combines rare and unseen archive footage with interviews with the surviving cosmonauts to tell the fascinating and at times terrifying story of how the Russians led us into the space age. A particular highlight is Alexei Leonov, the man who performed the first spacewalk, explaining how he found himself trapped outside his spacecraft 500 miles above the Earth. Scary stuff.
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The DelβVikings
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Moments from disaster
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Michael Lachmann |
Director | Michael Lachmann |
Executive Producer | Jonathan Renouf |
Broadcasts
- Mon 13 Oct 2014 21:00
- Tue 14 Oct 2014 01:50
- Thu 16 Oct 2014 22:30
- Tue 16 Dec 2014 20:00
- Fri 19 Dec 2014 00:30
- Tue 24 Feb 2015 22:00
- Sun 10 May 2015 22:30
- Tue 9 Jun 2015 23:55
- Wed 23 Sep 2015 22:00
- Tue 29 Sep 2015 00:15
- Sun 10 Apr 2016 23:30
- Thu 14 Apr 2016 01:20
- Sun 4 Dec 2016 23:25
- Fri 9 Dec 2016 01:40
- Tue 30 May 2017 22:00
- Wed 8 Nov 2017 21:00
- Thu 9 Nov 2017 02:30
- Wed 16 May 2018 20:00
- Thu 17 May 2018 02:00
- Tue 23 Apr 2019 00:50
- Sun 8 Aug 2021 23:35
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