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Russian Right Stuff: Soviet Space Program TV Series DVD, Download, USB

Russian Right Stuff: Soviet Space Program TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Russian Right Stuff: Soviet Space Program TV Series DVD, Download, USB
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The Landmark Three Part TV Documentary Series That Uncovers For The First Time The Secret History Of The Soviet Space Program From Its Beginnings In The Years Immediately After World War II Through Its Years Of Historic Space Firsts To Its Ultimate Eclipse By The Americans And The Soviet’s Own Failed Attempts To Land A On The Moon First, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS In An Archival Quality 2 Disc All Regions Format DVD Set, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1991, 3 Hours.) #SovietSpaceProgram #RussianRightStuff #Cosmonauts #SergeiKorolev #ChiefDesigner #GlavyKnostruktor #MannedSpaceProgram #HumanSpaceflight #HumanSpaceflightPrograms #Spaceflight #SpaceflightFirsts #SpaceflightRecords #BaikonurCosmodrome #VostokProgramme #VostokProgram #VostokSpacecraft #SovietUnion #SpaceRace #ColdWar #Satellites #SpaceExploration #OuterSpace #Probes #SovietHistory #USSR #SpaceAge #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive

Contents:

Episode 1: The Invisible Spaceman ("The Chief Designer" Sergei Korolev, Secret Lead Soviet Rocket Engineer And Spacecraft Designer)

Episode 2: The Dark Side Of The Moon (Soviet Secret Manned Moon Program, With Hardware Shown For First Time In This Documentary)

Episode 3: The Mission (A Complete Soviet Space Mission To The Mir Space Station, From Crew Launch To Crew Recovery)


The Soviet Space Program (Russian:Kosmicheskaya Programma SSSR) was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), conducted in competition with its Cold War adversary the United States, known as the Space Race from the mid-1950s until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It consisted of the development of expendable launch vehicles, uncrewed artificial satellites starting in 1953, and several human spaceflight programs. Over its 38-year history, the Soviet program achieved the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the Moon (Luna 3) and uncrewed lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets. The rocket and space program of the Soviet Union, which initially employed captured scientists from the V-2 rocket program, was performed mainly by Soviet engineers and scientists after 1955, and was based on some unique Soviet and Imperial Russian theoretical developments, many derived by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, sometimes known as the father of theoretical astronautics. Sergei Korolev was the head of the principal design group; his official title was Chief Designer (a standard title for similar positions in the Soviet Union). Unlike its American competitor, which had NASA as a single coordinating agency, the Soviet space program was split among several competing design bureaus led by Sergei Korolev, Kerim Kerimov, Mikhail Yangel, Valentin Glushko, Vladimir Chelomey, Viktor Makeyev, Mikhail Reshetnev, etc. Because of the program's classified status, and for propaganda value, announcements of the outcomes of missions were delayed until success was certain, and failures were kept secret unless detected by Western tracking stations. Ultimately, as a result of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost in the 1980s, many facts about the space program were declassified. Setbacks included the deaths of Korolev, Vladimir Komarov (in the Soyuz 1 crash), and the Soyuz 11 crew between 1966 and 1971, and failure to develop the N-1 super heavy-lift rocket (1968-1974) intended to launch crewed lunar landings. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine inherited the program. Kazakhstan created KazCosmos in the 21st century, Russia created an aerospace agency called Rosaviakosmos, which is now a space agency called Roscosmos, and Ukraine created the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU).