The Space Race
Short History Of...
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In 1950 a group of German rocket scientists arrives at the Redstone Arsenal, a US Army outpost. During World War II this was a chemical weapons facility. Now it's been repurposed to house these Nazi captives. They've been brought to the States as part of Operation Paperclip. But von Braun is not the only dreamer out there. In Russia a man called Sergei Korolev works in secret for the Red Army. It's between America and the Soviet Union have fast-souring after the Second World War.
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