First. (1987)

Part 1.

View of the assembly shop of a company where there is an installation of the satellite "Meteor".

Kind of satellites of various modifications and designs.

Newsreels 50s: Athletes are riding motorcycles in Moscow during the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957.

Clown Oleg Popov of artists at the festival.

General view of a group of Chief Designers of space technology; among them: VP Glushko, VI Kuznetsov, NA Pilyugin, Sergei Korolev, MS Ryazan, VP Barmine.

Lead locomotive freight train.

Carrying out geodetic works on the future site of the cosmodrome.

View site assembly and testing spaceport launch pad, R-7 rocket.

Preparing to launch rockets.

Start intercontinental missile.

Preparation for launch rocket GIRD-09. View missile silo.

The launch GIRD-09. Interview MK Tikhonravova (sinhr. and frame.).

Staff at the office design drawing boards.

Type of assembly and testing.

Specialist at the satellite.

Start and rocket flight.

Specialists at the instruments watching the flight of the satellite.

Indian television announcer sends a message about the flight of Sputnik.

Interview Lenin Prize -

G. Yu Maximova (sinhr. and frame.).

Part 2.

Newsreels 50s: People watching the flight of the satellite.

A group of people from the globe.

Start spaceship.

Astronaut in the cabin, performs technical work on board ship.

Staff at the Mission Control Center at the screens.

View of the first radar satellite "Kosmos-1500".

Icebreaker "Vladivostok" in ice.

General view of one of the observatories.

The Observatory is monitoring.

International Conference at the Institute for Space Research (1986) in connection with the launch vehicles "Vega" to Halley's Comet.