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EPISODE
Space Race - Season 1 Episode 04: Race for the Moon
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.
24 April 1953, London, England, UK
26 August 1944, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK
26 December 1950, Tirgu Mures, Romania
7 September 1959, Stalino, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Donetsk, Ukraine]
7 June 1962
16 September 1942, New York City, New York, USA
13 December 1949, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
3 December 1968, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
1961, Columbus, Ohio, USA
29 November 1974
4 April 1955, Braila, Romania
5 August 1933, Bishops Lydeard, Somerset, England, UK
March1966, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
September 13, 1981 in Guernsey, Channel Islands
21 October 1971, London, England, UK
19 May 1965, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
13 April 1967, Gillingham, Kent, England, UK
26 April 1968, Lugoj, Romania
