Road to the Stars
ā 5.9 Ā· 1957 Ā· 49m Ā· Documentary Ā· 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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