Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race (2014)

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon in 1969, America went down in popular history as the winner of the space race. But that history is bunk. The real pioneers of space exploration were the Soviet cosmonauts.

This documentary combines rare and unseen archive footage with interviews with the surviving cosmonauts to tell the fascinating and at times terrifying story of how the Russians led us into the space age. A particular highlight is Alexei Leonov, the man who performed the first spacewalk, explaining how he found himself trapped outside his spacecraft 500 miles above the Earth.

Technical Specs
Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4.1
Video Bitrate: CRF 21 (~2978Kbps)
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Rate: 25 FPS
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Audio Bitrate: 128Kbps ABR 44.1KHz
Audio Channels: 2
Run-Time: 89 mins
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 1.97 GB
Source: HDTV
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