About the launch of the first Soviet space missile towards the Moon.
Types of night Moscow. The manufacturing processes in a factory. Take-off missiles. Radio tower. Scientists at the telescope. Monuments of Ancient Egypt, China. The observatory, built Ulugbek. Portraits: Copernicus, Keklera, Galileo, Newton, Lomonosov, Tsiolkovsky. Chronicle: Tsiolkovsky at the table, the missiles, the radio welcomes participants in the demonstration. Day demonstration in Red Square. Launch rocket. Camp geophysicists on Franz Josef Land. Preparing to launch rockets. Running meteorological rockets and radiosondes. The Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in Brussels. Models satellites. The launch in the U.S.. The Cruiser "Aurora" in Leningrad. The wireless operator, watching the flight of missiles at the cruiser. City of Moscow. Press Conference in the USSR. Speakers: A. Topchiev, AA Blagonravov. Journalists ask questions. Students on a field trip to the Planetarium. Professor AV Kukarkin tells about the flight of a space rocket. The President of the USSR AP Nesmeyanov spoke of the importance of starting on Jan. 2, 1959 a space rocket in the direction of the moon. Speaker Khrushchev.