PBS America – Space Race
Docu-drama following the launch of the first Soviet Sputnik satellite at a time when 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, while the US proudly introduced the first astronauts to the world, unaware their Russian counterparts were about to take the lead again.