Space

Films from the Former Soviet Union of the space programme 1957-1988

Journey into the Future

USSR 1970 35mm 60 mins ec

Flight of Soyuz 9 by cosmonauts Nikolaev and Sevastinov. Cosmonauts in space station playing chess, medical checks. Return to Earth.

Gagarin, World's First Spaceman

USSR 1961 35mm 20 mins bw ec

World's reaction to Gagarin's flight. Gagarin returns to a hero's welcome in Moscow. Footage of the motorcade through the city and a mass rally in Red Square.

Attention Weightlessness

USSR 1964 16mm 18 mins col ec

Experiments in weightlessness. A flying laboratory, animal experiments, pigeons, cats, fish, guinea pigs and human experiments.

Infinite Sky

USSR 1964 16mm 50 mins col ec

Triparate orbital space flight of Komarov, Feditov and Yegorov on October 12th 1964 in Voshkod Two. Pre-flight training and discussion of the nervous system under outer space conditions.

Year in a Ground Spaceship, A

USSR 1970 16mm 22 mins bw ec

Space medicine research on cosmonauts confined for one year in simulated spaceship.

Woman in Space

USSR 1964 16mm 65 mins col ec

Life and work of Valentine Tereshkova the first woman in space.

Ten Years of Space

USSR 1967 16/35mm 55 mins col ec

Survey of the first ten years of the Soviet space programme. October 1957 - first Sputnik launch. November 1957 - Sputnik 2 carries Laika into space, Sputnik 3 in geophysical lab. Luna 1 past the moon, Luna 2 delivers USSR emblem to moon, Luna 3 tales photographs of the far side of the moon. Vostok 1 and Gagarin into space, pre-flight training. Titov, the first 24-hour orbital flight on Vostok 2. First group flight, Nikalaev and Popvich in Vostok 3 and 4. Tereshkova, the first woman in space and world press reaction. Orbital flight by cosmonauts Komarov, Feokistov and Egorov aboard the three-place Voskhod spacecraft. Leonov and the first space walk in Voskhod 2. 1965 - first communications satellite of the Molina 1 series in synchronous orbit. 1966 - first soft moon landing by Luna 9 probe, pictures of lunar landscape transmitted to earth. Luna 10 probe, first lunar satellite. 1967 - flight of Soyuz 1 with Komarov. Venera 4 probe into Venusian atmosphere transmitting scientific data.