NSTREAM
The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.
Made in GB
7.4/10
2005
Server
Having issues? Try switching to a different server.
Episodes
Now Playing
1. Race for Rockets
Race For Rockets, spans 1944-1949. We see Wernher von Braun's work on the V-2 for the Nazis during the last years of the Second World War, his surrender to American troops and his move to the USA. We see Sergei Korolev's release from the Gulag, and how he is set to work on Soviet rockets, first attempting to copy the V-2, then building a more efficient rocket of his own.
2. Race for Satellites
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. Meanwhile, von Braun struggles to persuade the US government to allow him to launch his own satellite - after Sputnik's launch and the failure of the US Navy to launch a Vanguard satellite, he is finally allowed to launch the first American satellite, Explorer 1.
3. Race for a Space Man
1959-1961. Both the Americans and Soviets are planning manned space flight, and we see both sides preparing to do so with the development of the Vostok programme (Russia) and Project Mercury (USA). After difficulties and failures on both sides, the Soviets succeed in putting Yuri Gagarin into space first, with the Americans putting Alan Shepard up shortly afterwards.
4. Race to the Moon
Race To The Moon, spans 1964-1969. Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - while the Soviets struggle, the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. The Soviet space programme suffers its own blows: Sergei Korolev dies when his heart fails during an operation, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, and their planned moon rocket, the N-1 rocket, fails to successfully launch. In America, von Braun has difficulties with the Saturn V, but they are overcome, and the rocket successfully launches the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 8, and the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11.
Cast
Richard Dillane
As Wernher von Braun
Steve Nicolson
As Sergey Korolyov
Ravil Isyanov
As Valentin Glushko
Max Bollinger
As Russian Cosmonaut (voice)
More
The Right Stuff
Star Wars Resistance
Battlestar Galactica
Project Blue Book
Andor
Taken
The Bible
SkyMed
Debris
Defying Gravity
One Strange Rock
Sanditon
Fosse/Verdon
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Horizon
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Top Gear
Our Universe
V
Shōgun
Wolf Among Wolves
New Worlds
Jenny's War
Ivanhoe
Black Work
When We Go to War
The Disappearance
Sparkhouse
Girlfriend Project Day 1
The Devil Next Door
Chubby Romance
500 Nations
Marco Polo
1 Litre of Tears
Between The Sheets
How to Become a Mob Boss
Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson
Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation
The Rose Medallion