Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014)

Released: 2014-10-13 Duration: 1hr 30min
Genres: Documentary
Rating 7.3

Overview

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.

Production Companies

BBC
BBC

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 1.018

Directed By

Michael Lachmann

Crew

Camera Operator
Neil Kent
Production Manager
Evih Efue
Production Manager
Rebecca Lavender
Editor
Gerard Evans
Executive Producer
Jonathan Renouf

TOP CAST

Paul McGann
Paul McGann

Narrator (Voice)

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