Space Race

Latest Episodes

• Season 1 Episode 4: Race to the Moon

  Docu-drama revealing how President Kennedy set the challenge to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. In America, Wernher von Braun at last had the resources for the most powerful rocket ever built. Meanwhile, Soviet designer Sergei Korolev worked on his own daring plan for beating the US using only a fraction of his rival's funds - until events beyond his control spelled disaster. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 3: Race for a Spaceman

  Following the launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite, both superpowers were eager to accomplish the next breakthrough - putting a man into space. Rival scientists Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev set to work on the technology to make this possible. But while the US proudly introduced the first astronauts to the world, they were unaware their Russian counterparts were about to take the lead again, with a mission so secret even the crew had no clue as to its objective

• Season 1 Episode 2: Race for Satellites

  Docu-drama focusing on how Wernher von Braun, once Hitler's leading rocket scientist, made a bid to launch the world's first satellite in America, unaware of his secret rival Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union. This shadowy chief designer, whose very existence remained a closely guarded state secret, was also prepared to gamble everything to be first in space