SOYUZ MISSION

Year Published: 1960s

Format: 16mm

Description: This film titled "Soyuz Mission" is produced by the Soviet Union as part nr. 185 of the "Around the Soviet Union" propaganda series. It shows an overview of activities at the Baikonur Cosmodrome space launch facility and the successful launch of a Soyuz mission. It includes footage of numerous Vostok space missions manned by cosmonauts including Yuri Gagarin, Gherman Titov, Valentina Tereshkov, and Alexei Arkhipovitj Leonov. It also includes scenes of the astronauts’ personal lives and their training in Star City. "Soyuz Mission" contains footage dating from the 1960s, at the time of the competitive ‘Space Race’ to achieve superior spaceflight capability between the Soviet Union and the US, until the late 1980s to early 1990s. Credits (00:09). A globe (00:23). "Around the Soviet Union" title banner in Russian, German, Spanish, French, Arabic, and English (00:26). Russian informational text overlay (00:46). "Soviet Cosmonautics" text overlay (translated from Russian) (00:51). A cloudy sky (00:53). Footage from 1961 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the largest operational space launch facility in terms of area (01:02). Pilot Yuri Gagarin boards Vostok-3KA rocket on 12 April 1961 (01:08). Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft during the 1950s and 60s (01:30). The Vostok-3KA rocket launches (01:36). Footage of pilot Yuri Gagarin inside the rocket (01:55). Footage of Earth from the rocket (02:03). Yuri Gagarin is celebrated at Red Square in Moscow (02:13). Footage from Vostok 2, the Soviet space mission which carried cosmonaut Gherman Titov into orbit for a full day on August 6, 1961 (02:30). Footage from the Vostok 6 mission, where Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, 1963 (03:02). Crowds celebrating Valentina Tereshkova (03:18). Soviet cosmonautic experts meet and perform research (03:43). Alexei Arkhipovitj Leonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, the first person to spacewalk on March 18, 1965 (03:56). Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy, the Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968 (04:14). Earth seen from space (04:25). Cosmonauts Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev and Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov on board the Soyuz 9 ship (04:35). The cosmonauts exercise onboard the ship (05:06). Views of Earth from the ship’s window (05:20). Orbiting satellites (05:29). Possibly Luna 1, also known as Mechta, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of Earth's Moon (05:35). Space modules (05:40). A rocket launch (05:49). Snowy Soviet countryside (06:16). Alexei Leonov films with a Beaulieu R16 camera (06:25). He displays his painting passion (06:37). He sits in his living room with his bird (07:04). Branches (07:18). Footage from ‘Star City’ (Russian: Zvyozdny Gorodok), the highly restricted military facility northeast of Moscow, where cosmonauts have been trained at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) since the 1960s (07:24). Footage of the astronaut’s high-g training (07:30), and diving to train for weightlessness (08:11). Views of the built rocket modules (08:35). Georgy Shonin (08:57) and Valeri Kubasov, who manned the Soyuz 6 mission in October 1969 (08:59) Footage from the launch and space mission (09:01). Valery Victorovich Ryumin, Soviet cosmonaut aboard the Salyut 7 space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991 (09:38).

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