Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk. 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.
Year: 2014
Genre: Documentary
Studio: BBC
Director: Michael Lachmann
Cast: Paul McGann
Crew: Michael Lachmann (Director), Michael Lachmann (Writer), Neil Kent (Camera Operator), Rebecca Lavender (Production Manager), Andy Hopkins (Music), Gerard Evans (Editor)
Runtime: 90 minutes
Release: Oct 13, 2014
IMDb: 7.42/10 by 6 users
Popularity: 0
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English, Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : soviet union, space
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