Race for Space

Duration: 55

Year Published: 1960

Creator: David Wolper Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the history of missile and rocket development from 1913 to the launching of the Russian Sputnik I and II, and the launching of United States' Explorer I. Presents the work of American and German scientists previous to World War II, and military developments by Germany at Peenemunde and Nordhausen. States that the actual race for space between the U.S. and Russia began in 1947 with both sides gaining scientists and missile equipment from the defeated Germans. The next ten years of experimentation was climaxed in 1957 with the orbiting of the two Sputniks. Concludes with the idea that the race of the future is the development of manned satellites., Analyzes the missile race between the United States and Russia. Contains American and Soviet rocket and space films including the firings of Sputnik I and II and the launching of the Explorer I.

Complete Record: Documents the history of missile and rocket development from 1913 to the launching of the Russian Sputnik I and II, and the launching of United States' Explorer I. Presents the work of American and German scientists previous to World War II, and military developments by Germany at Peenemunde and Nordhausen. States that the actual race for space between the U.S. and Russia began in 1947 with both sides gaining scientists and missile equipment from the defeated Germans. The next ten years of experimentation was climaxed in 1957 with the orbiting of the two Sputniks. Concludes with the idea that the race of the future is the development of manned satellites., , Analyzes the missile race between the United States and Russia. Contains American and Soviet rocket and space films including the firings of Sputnik I and II and the launching of the Explorer I.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.