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.
26 April 1968, Lugoj, Romania
19 May 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
3 December 1968, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
September 13, 1981 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
March1966, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
13 April 1967, Gillingham, Kent, England, UK
24 April 1953, London, England, UK
7 September 1959, Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]
4 April 1955, Braila, Romania
22 November 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
5 August 1933, Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England, UK
1964, England, UK
20 August 1962, Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
13 December 1949, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
26 December 1950, Tirgu Mures, Romania
1964, Halstead, Essex, England, UK
16 September 1942, New York City, New York, USA
