Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race

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 remarkable feature-length 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.

Los soviéticos empezaron con ventaja. En octubre de 1957 pusieron en órbita al Sputnik 1 y un mes más tarde a la perrita Laika, en el Sputnik 2. En 1959 lanzaron un satélite que colisionó, por error, con la luna (Luna 2) y con otro obtuvieron la primera foto de la cara oculta de la luna (Luna 3).