EPISODE
The BBC's Space Race is a documentary/drama chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race, leading up to the first moon landing. The series concentrates on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart, as their rivalry intensifies and the pressure to be the first builds.
21 October 1971, London, England, UK
20 August 1962, Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
26 December 1950, Tirgu Mures, Romania
29 November 1974
1961, Columbus, Ohio, USA
16 September 1942, New York City, New York, USA
26 April 1968, Lugoj, Romania
5 August 1933, Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England, UK
1964, England, UK
7 June 1962
September 13, 1981 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
7 September 1959, Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]
13 April 1967, Gillingham, Kent, England, UK
24 April 1953, London, England, UK
4 April 1955, Braila, Romania
3 December 1968, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1964, Halstead, Essex, England, UK
26 August 1944, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK
22 November 1966, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
