EPISODE
Space Race - Season 1
The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds.
19 May 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
4 April 1955, Braila, Romania
22 November 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
20 August 1962, Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
26 December 1950, Tirgu Mures, Romania
26 August 1944, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK
7 September 1959, Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]
March1966, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
