Road to the Stars

Road to the Stars

Road to the Stars

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Road to the Stars

1957

0h 49m

5.8(26 votes)

Documentary

Science Fiction

Overview

This film consists of three parts. The first dramatizes the life of the founder of Soviet astronautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; the second describes the development of rocket technology; and the third visualizes the future with enactments of the first manned spaceflight, spacewalk, space station construction and humans on the moon.

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Georgi Solovyov

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Георгий Кульбуш

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Георгий Кульбуш

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