This Soviet era film entitled “Space” was produced at the Kievnauchfilm studio, which produced a significant share of the Soviet Union’s educational movies for the secondary schools and post-secondary institutions. This movie allows the audience to witness all the major steps of technological advancement of the manned and unmanned Soviet space program from Sputnik-1, through the animals in space and first human space flight to unmanned satellites and Salyut space stations.

Highlights:

0:10 On the 4th of October 1957 the first artificial satellite, Sputnik was launched

0:44 Sputnik-1 deployment and animation

0:59Newspaper articles about Sputnik

1:15 animations relating the history of industry and science leading to airplanes and space flights

2:06 house of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky himself

2:24 Tsiolkovski’s works on mechanics of space flight

2:43 – photo of Tsiolkovsky with his prototype rocket/ballistic body.

2:50 Animations, demonstrating and interpreting Tsiolkovsy’s works in inhabited rocket design

3:30 Physics formula giving the equilibrium between the kynetic energy and force of gravity for an (artificial) satellite of a celestial body

3:40 …thus deriving from the above formula the Earth’s artificial satellite velocity of 8 km/s3:50 In order to attain such a velocity Tsiolkovsky proposed multistage rockets

4:30-4:40 Animations, demonstrating the Earth’s and the Sun’s escape velocities

4:40 Soyuz/Salyut-style orbiter/space station

5:00 Footage of the inside of the station in the microgravity

5:50-6:20 Concept of de-orbiting, returning to Earth

6:20-6:39 Landing module returning to earth and being collected by a ground team with the use of an Mi-8 helicopter

6:40 Development of industry, agriculture, and education was a prerequisite to and hurried the hour when the first satellite’s radio signal would be heard around the world

8:05 Friedrich Zander and Sergei Korolev

8:11 Someone working on a liquid fueled prototype rocket launch stand.

8:15 Diagram of a Katyusha rocket launcher and shots of the modern ZIL-truck based rocket mortars

8:25-8:30 Various industry – a power station, a steel mill and a chemical plant

8:38 Tu-104 passenger plane Tupolev Tu-104

8:47 The first satellite was called a “Russian miracle” by the press, the precondition of the Russian miracle was the state socialism system

9:48- Shots of the various Soviet space dogs including Laika. A stray mongrel from the streets of Moscow, Laika was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into outer space on 3 November 1957.

10:35 The end of the first reel

10:40 Assembly like of the Vostok / Voshod space ship and rockets and various cosmonaut training

11:16 Yuri Gagarin having an ECG

11:30 rocket being raised up on the launch pad

11:40 Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin suiting-up

12:00 taking a bus to the launch pad and bidding goodbye to the team

12:25 Gagarin’s audio address to mankind before his flight.

13:02 Gagarin’s rocket launch, presumably it is Vostok 1

13:30 Celebrations of the Gagarin’s space flight on April 12th 1961

14:00 Footage of Alexei Leonov’s first space walk, March 18th 1965

14:40 Molnya -series (aka Thunderbolt) and some other types of Soviet broadcast and meteorological artificial satellites

15:50 Microgravity inside and outside footage from the Salyut/Soyuz Stations

16:00 Cosmonauts, working in alternating teams, are providing research and work which has a high economic impact

16:20 Principles of satellite imagery – diagrammatic presentations and photos, and its uses for the economy

17:18 more microgravity footage… “Space allows us to make significant technological discoveries, for example smelting metal in space reveals very interesting properties of it”.

18:14 Mission control center of Roscosmos. It is located in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, in Pionerskaya Street near the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia plant.

18:20 More microgravity footage – exercising and taking a shower in space

18:45 Landing and departure footage, some shots of cosmonauts shaking hands with people, “Space is the place for international cooperation”.

19:10 – end of the movie, more footage of Salyut/Soyuz/Vostok space ship assembly line, a rocket launch.

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