Road to the Stars
β 5.9 Β· 1957 Β· 49m Β· Documentary Β· Science Fiction
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.
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