The film is dedicated to the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite.
Nuclear bomb, Eisenhower, Michael Tikhonravov, Georgi Grechko, Sergei Korolev, Boris Chertok, Keldysh, Pyotr Kapitsa, Baikonur, satellite "Foton", R-7, satellite launching
Igor Kirillov read out the message about the launch of Sputnik in 1957.
Newsreel 40-ies.:
Fly airplanes.
American troops.
General on the podium.
Planes in the air.
Meeting headquarters.
Bombs fall.
Mushroom.
Freight car carries a bomb.
Testing the atomic bomb in the USSR. Passes Stalin.
Newsreel 50-ies.:
Dwight Eisenhower on the walk.
Eisenhower on the podium.
American Hospital.
People on the streets.
Photo: Michael Tikhonravov.
Newsreel:
Defense Research Institute.
Scientists at work.
Drawings.
Says Doctor of Technical Sciences Igor Bazhenov.
Newsreel 40-ies.:
Artillery Academy of Sciences.
Michael Tikhonravov among scientists.
Says the daughter of Michael Tikhonravova Natalia Tikhonravova.
Newsreel:
Work in factories, fields, weapons factories.
Meeting of the train, the people on the platform.
Takeoff of the rocket.
Stalin meeting.
Says cosmonaut Georgy Grechko.
Newsreel 50-ies.:
American and Soviet scientists.
The U.S. military at lectures.
Missiles.
Korolev and his colleagues at work.
Says Igor Bazhenov.
Newsreel:
Michael Tikhonravov with colleagues around the table.
Says Academician Chertok.
Newsreel 1953:
Red Square.
Portrait of Stalin on the building, the funeral procession.
Newsreel 50-ies.:
Korolev at the table.
The traffic controller on the street, people go.
Parade of military hardware in Red Square.
Beria on the podium.
Jobs at KB.
Says party launched the first space satellite of the Earth, Lieutenant-General Vitaly Sokolov.
Newsreel:
Kremlin.
Airplane is flying.
Says the king.
Keldysh.
Pyotr Kapitsa.
In KB. At work.
Says designer of the first satellite Oleg Ivanovski.
Says Chief Designer of the Central Specialized Design Bureau "Progress" Ravil Akhmetov.
Work on modern satellite "Foton".
Says program director "Foton" Vadim Zhukov.
The launch of the Soyuz from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
Newsreel of 1955:
Steppe.
There is a train.
It is a camel.
The construction of Baikonur.
Says Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of Sputnik Nikolai Semenov.
Newsreel of 1955:
Construction of Baikonur.
Tents.
Photo: builders of Baikonur.
Says party Sputnik Maj.
Gen.
Dmitri Anisimov.
Newsreel of 1955:
There is a train.
Military on the train.
They play chess.
Scientists in size.
Work on the satellite.
Eisenhower on the podium.
Listening people.
Statue of Liberty.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Says the king.
Baikonur.
Military.
Launch.
Copenhagen. 6 th Congress of the International Association of Space.
Red Square parade.
Newsreel of 1955:
Washington.
Eisenhower.
USSR. Jobs at KB.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Newsreel the 1950's.:
Khrushchev on the podium.
Work on the satellite.
Work on the "photons".
Scientists around the satellite.
Says Ravil Akhmetov.
Transportation modernized launch vehicle "Soyuz".
Says Deputy Head of Federal Space Agency, Yuri Nosenko.
Newsreel 1956:
The designers of the drawings, in KB.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Eyzenhaur on the podium.
Start the American three-stage rocket with the satellite.
Explosion.
Khrushchev on the podium, waving his fist.
Works in KB. Korolev KB.
Says Academician Chertok.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Newsreel 50-ies.:
Tyuratam.
The first missile launches.
People at the instruments, the rocket.
Liftoff.
The explosion of the rocket.
Newsreel 1957:
Liftoff.
Rocket in the air.
Chertok says.
Newsreel 50-ies.:
USA. People on the streets.
Read newspapers.
USSR. Work on the missile testing range.
Says Vitaly Sokolov.
Newsreel 50-ies.:
Launch at the firing range.
Work on the "photon", scientists from the satellite.
Says President - CEO Ariane Espace "Jin-Yves Le Gall.
Sputnik "Foton".
Experiments experiments.
Mouse-gerbil.
Mice in a cage.
Scientist with mice.
Says Yuri Nosenko.
Newsreel 40-ies.:
They're bringing them a rocket.
A scientist at the instruments.
Gather rocket.
Says PhD, member Sputnik George Priess.
Newsreel:
The launch.
Teams.
Takeoff of the rocket.
Military watch.
Missiles at the cosmodrome.
Missile launch.
Newsreel 1957:
Run R-7 rocket.
Says Academician Chertok.
Newsreel 1957:
Soldiers from the rocket.
Passes Korolev.
It is Rocket R-7.
Sputnik.
A scientist at the satellite.
Details of the satellite.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Newsreel:
Scientists at the missile.
Gather rocket.
Newsreel 1957:
Baikonur.
They're bringing them launcher.
Says Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of Sputnik Vladimir Kobelev.
Newsreel 1957:
Hands of the details and collect satellite.
Scientists at the instruments.
Baikonur (the plane).
Says Georgi Grechko.
Newsreel 1957:
Scientists at the instruments, in KB.
Said Vladimir Kobelev.
Photo: Korolev.
Newsreel 1957:
Korolev KB.
Baikonur.
Preparations for the launch of the spacecraft.
Removal of the launch vehicle.
Newsreel 1957:
Scientists at the rocket with the satellite.
To command.
Rise R-7 rocket with the satellite.
Scientists at the instruments, monitor the readings of sensors.
Said Dmitri Anisimov.
Says George Priess.
Newsreel 1957:
Out of the satellite into orbit.
Says Doctor of Technical Sciences, member of Sputnik Edward Bolotov.
Newsreel 1957:
Scientists listen to satellite signal.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Newsreel 1957:
Moscow.
Kremlin.
Khrushchev and the Politburo members.
Celebrate the launch of the satellite.
Newsreel 1957:
Korolev with handsets.
Says Vitaly Sokolov.
Newsreel 1957:
People watching satellite.
Michael Tikhonravov.
Photo: Tikhonravov etc.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Newsreel 195o's.:
Jobs at KB, scientists, people from the rocket, at the instruments.
Said Dmitri Anisimov.
Said Vladimir Kobelev.
Newsreel 1957:
Television studio.
Says the announcer Igor Kirillov.
Said Oleg Ivanovski.
Newsreel 1957:
Publish the newspaper.
TASS report about the launch of the satellite.
People read newspapers.
The people on the streets, rejoicing and applauding.
Salut.
USA. Listening Soviet satellite signal.
Speakers read the reports of the satellite.
Eisenhower's Meeting with the military.
Press.
People in the hall.
Foreign newspaper reports of the satellite.
Dancing.
Japan.
Barber.
New haircut "Sputnik".
Satellite in the sky.
Man listens to satellite signal.
Newsreel 1958:
Starting an American rocket with the satellite.
Watch the launch.
Khrushchev on the podium.
Demonstration.
Workers at the plant.
Korolev, sits near the rocket.
The launch, revealed the fairing. "Photon" in space.
Says Igor Kirillov.