“CONQUERORS OF THE UNIVERSE“ 20th CENTURY SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM SPACE RACE YURI GAGARIN XD43394

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This Soviet propaganda film, featuring English narration, covers the Space Race from the perspective of the Soviet Union (USSR), highlighting the career of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the landmark spaceflights of Sputnik, Vostok, and Voskhod (TRT 48:29). Media res opening montage. A rocket ready for launch (0:08). Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in a still closeup. The 1961 launch of Vostok 1 with Russian title overlay (0:29). Credits over newspaper printing, switchboard operators, typists (0:52). Gagarin in the news (1:42). Scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in a still closeup. Engineer Valentin Glushko speaks from his award filled office (1:53). The Leningrad Gas Dynamics Laboratory (2:56). A Soviet liquid-propellant rocket engine burns fuel. Modern rocket thrusters (3:12). Sergei Korolev and other rocket enthusiasts of the Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD). Bipl