Space_Race《太空竞赛》

应用科学类纪录片,BBC 频道 2005 年出品。

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  • 中文片名 :太空竞赛 / 登月竞赛
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  • 英文片名 :Space Race
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  • 电视台 :BBC
  • 地区 :英国
  • 语言 :英语
  • 版本 :DVD
  • 发行时间 :2005

这是当代历史上,既震撼又令人兴奋的一页。由第二次世界大战开始,直至成功登陆月球才告终。当中包括追踪最大威力的火箭,载人到太空和航天员登陆月球的情节。其中更涉及惊人的间谍活动和科学突破,甚至将航天员和队员的性命作赌注。

而本节目是围绕着两名有远见的科学领袖之间的斗争。他们分别是美国阵营的前纳粹党党员魅力十足的布劳恩和谜一般的苏联计划领袖科罗里夫。他们两人互相竞逐,从争夺V2火箭身秘密开始,以至发动卫星史泼尼克号和木星号,还有加加林和艾伦的升空,直至达成两人的终极目标 — 载人登陆月球。

We see the results of Wernher von Braun’s work on the V-2 for the Nazis at Mittelwerk and Peenemünde, and his final activities within Germany during the last years of the Second World War, as both American and Soviet forces race to capture German rocket technology. When the Americans gain the upper hand by recovering von Braun and most of his senior staff, along with all their technical documents and much other materiel, we see Sergei Korolev’s release from the Gulag to act as the Soviets’ rocketry expert alongside former colleague Valentin Glushko, and how he is set to work bringing Russian rocket technology up to date with that of von Braun, working with what material and personnel are left after von Braun’s escape to the US.

As the Cold War intensifies, Korolev is asked to build a rocket capable of carrying a five-ton warhead to America - he designs and constructs the R-7 Semyorka, the first ICBM, and is later allowed to use it to launch the first satellite, Sputnik 1, quickly following up with the rushed Sputnik 2. Meanwhile, von Braun struggles to persuade the US government to allow him to launch his own satellite - after Sputnik’s launch and the failure of the US Navy to launch a Vanguard satellite, he is finally allowed to launch the first American satellite, Explorer 1.

Both the Americans and Soviets are planning manned space flight, and we see both sides preparing to do so with the development of the Vostok programme (USSR) and Project Mercury (USA). As well as basic details about the capsules and their delivery vehicles, we also see some of the selection and training of the Russian cosmonauts, and rather less of that of their counterparts in the US. After difficulties and failures on both sides, the Soviets succeed in putting Yuri Gagarin into space first, with the Americans putting Alan Shepard up shortly afterwards.

Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. Meanwhile, despite a few notable successes such as the first space walk by Alexei Leonov, the Soviet space programme struggles to keep up amid internal strife. Glushko and Korolev permanently fall out in an argument about fuel; Korolev turns to Nikolai Kuznetsov to develop engines instead. Kuznetsov delivers the NK-33, very efficient but much less powerful than the Americans' F-1. The Soviet program suffers further blows when Korolev dies during surgery, Gagarin dies in a jet crash, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills Vladimir Komarov, and the prototype booster for the moon shot, the N-1 rocket, fails to successfully launch. In America, von Braun has continuing difficulties with the Saturn V, especially combustion instability in the large F-1 engine, but these are ultimately overcome almost by brute force at great expense, and the rocket successfully launches the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 8, and the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11. The final episode finishes with brief textual summaries of the remaining careers of the various people involved.

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内容 自然科学类 天文学 太阳系 月球 地球 航天器 火箭 空间探测器
史地类 历史 二十世纪 地理 欧洲 东欧 俄罗斯 美洲

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