BBC Space Race episode 2 (2) Sputnik
Filed Under (Space Flight) by Admin on 22-04-2008
Tagged Under : American Counterpart, Bbc, Bbc 2, Bbc2, Chief Rocket Designer, Cold War, Drama Series, Episode 2, German American, Joint Effort, Satellite Sputnik, Satellites, Soviet Space, Soviets, Space Race, Spans, Sputnik 1, Warhead, Wernher Von Braun
rseferino asked:
Space Race is a BBC docu-drama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September/October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race. It focusses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviets’ chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams.
Episode 2, Race For Satellites, spans 1953-1958. As the Cold War intensifies, Korolev is asked to build a rocket capable of carrying a five-ton warhead to America - he designs and constructs the R-7 Semyorka, and is later allowed to use it to launch the first satellite, Sputnik 1.
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BBC Space Race episode 4 (7) Final
Filed Under (Space Flight) by Admin on 28-10-2007
Tagged Under : American Counterpart, Apollo 11, Armstrong Aldrin And Collins, Armstrong And Aldrin, Bbc2, Chief Rocket Designer, Eastern Daylight Time, German American, Johnston Island, Kennedy Space Center, Liftoff, Lunar Module Eagle, Nautical Miles, Neil Armstrong, Sea Of Tranquility, Soviet Space, Space Race, Tranquility Base, Uneventful Trip, Wernher Von Braun
rseferino asked:
Space Race is a BBC docu-drama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September/October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race. It focusses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviets’ chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams.
At 9:32 a.m. Eastern daylight time on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 left Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, bound for the moon. Four days later, at 4:18 p.m. EDT on July 20, Neil Armstrong skilfully set the lunar module Eagle down in the Sea of Tranquility and reported, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” For the next 10 minutes Armstrong and Aldrin were occupied with several post-landing procedures, reconfiguring switches and systems. Armstrong found time to report to Mission Control what he had been too busy to tell them during the landing: that he had manually flown the lunar module over the rockstrewn crater where the automatic landing system was taking it.
Next morning Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins spent most of their time setting up Eagle and Columbia for liftoff and rendezvous. Before the lunar module left the moon. Liftoff and rendezvous went smoothly. After jettisoning the lunar module and straightening up the command module, the three astronauts settled in for an uneventful trip back to earth.
In the early morning hours of July 24, 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, and 18 seconds after leaving Kennedy Space Center, Columbia plopped down into the Pacific Ocean about 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) south of Johnston Island.
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