1 Season
3 Episode
Chasing the Moon - Season 1 Episode 1 A Place Beyond the Sky
On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 - a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere - into orbit. The satellite caused a sensation. Amid Cold War tensions, the Soviet Union’s accomplishment signalled a dramatic technological advantage and American felt it had little choice but to join the Space Race.
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
- Director : Robert Stone
- Cast : Sergei Khrushchev, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Frank Borman, Yuri Gagarin
