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Soviet Space Program Educational Film Sputnik, Laika, Gagarin, Leonov Salyut / Soyuz Rockets 56334 (1957)

1957 · Short film · 20 min

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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…

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Running time
20 minutes
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Ephemeral Films

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