Talk:Space Race (TV series)
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Great fun to watch, but very inaccurate. This might be a good place to collect the numerous mistakes. Here are a few to start. DonPMitchell 04:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
1. A small point: Korolev's name is mispronounced badly, and inconsistantly. Proper Russian pronounciation is something like "kar ah LOW(f)". Faint f at the end, very short "y" sound after the L.
2. Korolev did not spend the war in a gulag. He was there a short time and then, was transfered to house arrest, working on rocket projects with Glushko.
3. Tupulov, the aircraft designer, rescued Korolev. It is highly unlikely that Glushko (who was also under arrest) would have been asked to pick the leader of the V-2 analysis project. And if he had been, he most certainly would have chosen himself, not Korolev.
4. The whole atmosphere of Korolev being threatned and disrespected by the generals is cliche and inaccurate. People were highly impressed by him and his managment and engineering skills.
5. Object-D was designed by a committee overseen by M.V. Keldysh, the president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. It was not just something Mishin and Korolev were tinkering together. They did not "get rid of the science experiments" to build Sputnik-1. Object-D was launched some months later as Sputnik-3.
6. Sputnik-1 did contain science experiments. It had two radio transmitters (not one), at different frequencies, chosen by K.I. Gringauz for ionospheric measurments. And its signal tone was designed to change if the capsule was depressurized by a micrometeorite strike.
- Agree with you completely. These should be put in the article under their own headings. I believe I spotted more errors (for example, the end of the last program claimed the R-7 launcher is still in service. I don't think it is, but variants of it are) Damburger 09:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Soundtrack?
Does anyone know if the soundtrack was custom made for the program or is it a classical music peice? --Simpsons fan 66 06:40, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
