NOVA: Sputnik Declassified
directed by: Rushmoore De Nooyer
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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0783421422698
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: WGBH BOSTON
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH BOSTON
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Running Time: 56 minutes
Sales Rank: 51006
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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The world changed fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, when the U.S. public heard the shocking news that the Soviet Union had successfully launched the first satellite, Sputnik I. Why didnít the U.S. beat the Soviets in this first crucial round of the space race? NOVA reveals an astonishing behind-the-scenes story of the politics and personalities that collided over the earliest efforts to get America into space, long before the founding of NASA. Anticommunist witch-hunts drove some of the nationís most talented rocketry pioneers out of the country even as we welcomed Wernher von Braun and his former Nazi colleagues. With help from Walt Disney, von Braunís vision of future space travel swiftly captivated U.S. TV watchers. But even as he became the first media star of the Space Age, von Braunís attempts to build space probes were hobbled by inter-service rivalries. In ìSecrets of the Sputnik Race,î NOVA details the previously untold story of the technological and political missteps that made the U.S. lose out to the Sovietsí bleeping electronic basketball.
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- Sputnik DeclassifiedMy brother, a rocket engineer who was placed on Werner Von Braun's staff when he was commissioned ... Read More
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- mis titled documentaryThis product has almost nothing to do with sputnik. Actual descriptions of sputnik and its launch ... Read More
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