SUCCESSES OF THE USSR IN SPACE EXPLORATION

Year Published: 1965

Format: 16mm

Description: For simultaneous translation, hit the "closed caption" button and then turn on "auto translate." This vintage historic film, "Successes of the USSR in Space Exploration" delivers an in-depth and interesting look into Soviet Russia Space Program. It showcases highlights from the year of 1965. The film includes shots of Sputnik satellites, lunar probes and landers including communications satellites for broadcasting of the television and the radio. A vintage Soviet Studio graphic leader opens the film (:07). The narrator begins on October 4th of 1957 (:28) as the space era began and the USSR launched Luna 2. An early satellite model (:54) is compared to modern satellite equipped with automatic instruments. Advances in technology enabled longer stays in outer space (1:16). Black smoke billows out as a satellite is launched (1:38). An animation follows a satellite opening it's wings (2:05). Retrieved footage from a launching (2:18) shows traces of geological history as well as the suns violent rays spinning off the sun (2:46). These lead to natural disasters (2:57) a hurricane lays waste to a tropical home (2:57). A silver satellite twirls in space (3:30). A radio system installed on earth captures the imagery (3:58). These are used to craft weather maps (4:25). An animation shows the planned orbit of the Soviet satellites (4:47). Ground crews watch television projections of the space mission (5:12). Female operators work at the telephone switchboard (5:24). An animation shows a lunar explorer heading for the moon (5:50). Craters litter the moon’s surface (6:29). Soviet space program employees work to craft new satellites and probes (7:37). Another animation traces a lunar landing on the moon (8:47). Technicians inspect a satellite (10:26). Architects work on blueprints for future programs (10:42). Close shots of a prototype lander show wheels moving over rocky terrain (11:38). This is likely the Lunokhod 1; the first of two unmanned lunar rovers set to cover the moon. It was carried by the Luna 17 spacecraft in 1970. A site is selected for the landing (12:30). Ground crews operate station controls (12:49). Footage follows of tracks cut into the moon’s surface (14:22). The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory appears (14:46). New space equipment is put together (15:29). A centrifuge is put to use (15:38). Heads of the space program meet (16:57). A mission to Mars is detailed (18:40). The surface of the red planet is pictured (20:04). 

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