EPISODE
Space Race - Season 1
The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds.
19 May 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
26 December 1950, Tirgu Mures, Romania
26 August 1944, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK
1964, Halstead, Essex, England, UK
24 April 1953, London, England, UK
1961, Columbus, Ohio, USA
29 November 1974
13 December 1949, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
7 September 1959, Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]
13 April 1967, Gillingham, Kent, England, UK
22 November 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
3 December 1968, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1964, England, UK
September 13, 1981 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
