BBC - Space Race (2005)
BBC - Space Race (2005)
DVDRip| 720 x 416 | .AVI/XviD@ 1886 Kbps | 4x~50mn | 2.91 GB
Audio: English AC-3 192 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary
DVDRip| 720 x 416 | .AVI/XviD@ 1886 Kbps | 4x~50mn | 2.91 GB
Audio: English AC-3 192 Kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary
Space Race is a BBC docu-drama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September/October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race. It focusses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviets' chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams.
Race For Rockets
spans 1944-1949. We see Wernher von Braun's work on the V-2 for the Nazis during the last years of the Second World War, his surrender to American troops and his move to the USA. We see Sergei Korolev's release from the Gulag, and how he is set to work on Soviet rockets, first attempting to copy the V-2, then building a more efficient rocket of his own.
Race For Satellites
spans 1953-1958. As the Cold War intensifies, Korolev is asked to build a rocket capable of carrying a five-ton warhead to America - he designs and constructs the R-7 Semyorka, and is later allowed to use it to launch the first satellite, Sputnik 1. Meanwhile, von Braun struggles to persuade the US government to allow him to launch his own satellite - after Sputnik's launch and the failure of the US Navy to launch a Vanguard satellite, he is finally allowed to launch the first American satellite, Explorer 1.
Race For Survival
spans 1959-1961. Both the Americans and Soviets are planning manned space flight, and we see both sides preparing to do so with the development of the Vostok programme (Russia) and Project Mercury (USA). After difficulties and failures on both sides, the Soviets succeed in putting Yuri Gagarin into space first, with the Americans putting Alan Shepard up shortly afterwards.
Race To The Moon
spans 1964-1969. Both sides now plan to put a man on the Moon - while the Soviets struggle, the Americans pull ahead in the space race with Project Gemini, but then suffer a disaster with the Apollo 1 fire. The Soviet space programme suffers its own blows: Sergei Korolev dies when his heart fails during an operation, Soyuz 1 crashes and kills cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, and their planned moon rocket, the N-1 rocket, fails to successfully launch. In America, von Braun has difficulties with the Saturn V, but they are overcome, and the rocket successfully launches the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 8, and the first manned lunar landing, Apollo 11.
General
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Complete name : BBC.Space.Race.1of4.Race.For.Rockets.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 746 MiB
Duration : 50 min 3 s
Overall bit rate : 2 085 kb/s
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release
Video
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Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 50 min 3 s
Bit rate : 1 886 kb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 416 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 1.731
Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.252
Stream size : 675 MiB (90%)
Writing library : XviD 1.1.2 (UTC 2006-11-01)
Audio
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Format : AC-3
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Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 50 min 2 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 spf)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 68.7 MiB (9%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 96 ms (2.40 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration : 96 ms
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
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BBC - Space Race (2005)
BBC - Space Race (2005)
BBC - Space Race (2005)
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