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Road to the Stars
· 1957

Road to the Stars

Pavel Klushantsev
Soviet space program Konstantin Tsiolkovsky rocket technology space exploration future spaceflight
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Synopsis

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

This Film Influenced

→ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

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