STAR BROTHERS
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Year Published: 1960s
Creator: [Soviet Union]
Format: 16mm
Description: This rare color film entitled STAR BROTHERS takes a look at the Soviet space program in the 1960s. It's an interesting counterpoint to NASA produced films of the same era. The film begins with footage of Yuri Gagarin (:29), the first man in space in 1961. At 1:05, Gherman Stepanovich Titov is shown, the second Soviet cosmonaut. At 1:30, American space hero John Glenn is seen with one of his Soviet counterparts. At 1:45, Pavel Romanovich Popovich and Andriyan Nikolayev of Vostok 4 & 3 respectively. At 3:17, the cosmonauts are shown enjoying a holiday in the Black Sea, before the movie moves to the more serious background of the men who are described as having terrific "moral integrity" among other qualities. At 6:50, astronaut tests are shown as part of flight simulation. At 8:30, tests are conducted to disorient the cosmonauts. At 8:50, a rotating gimbal makes the test even more difficult. At 10:08 a Sputnik type satellite is shown, and other Soviet satellites. At 10:23, the interior of the Vostok-3KA type spacecraft is shown. At 11:20, cosmonauts continue simulation in space suits. At 11:55, the suit is tested in a gas chamber. At 13:00, a centrifuge is employed. At 15:55, noise and alarms as well as flashing lights are used to disrupt the cosmonaut's thought process. At 18:13, an airplane is used to simulate weightlessness. At 20:48, simulation of a loss of atmosphere in the capsule is shown with the cosmonaut putting on his glove. At 21:11, Yuri Gagarin is shown advising his friend. At 23:00 a parachute jump is made by one of the cosmonauts. At 24:40 Pavel Popovich is seen showing his daughter the zoo and having a day in the city, and at 26:00 going on a Ferris wheel ride. At 28:10, Moscow is seen and the mausoleum of Lenin, where the cosmonauts pay a solemn visit before their flight. The film ends with a "Happy Journey" and a kiss goodbye -- continued on Reel 2. Vostok 3 (Russian: Восток-3, Orient 3 or East 3) was a spaceflight of the Soviet space program intended to determine the ability of the human body to function in conditions of weightlessness and test the endurance of the Vostok 3KA spacecraft over longer flights. Cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev orbited the Earth 64 times over nearly four days in space, August 11–15, 1962, a feat which would not be matched by NASA until the Gemini program (1965–1966). Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 were launched a day apart on trajectories that brought the spacecraft within approximately 6.5 km (4.0 mi) of one another. The cosmonauts aboard the two capsules also communicated with each other via radio, the first ship-to-ship communications in space. These missions marked the first time that more than one manned spacecraft was in orbit at the same time, giving Soviet mission controllers the opportunity to learn to manage this scenario. Vostok 4 (Russian: Восток-4, Orient 4 or East 4) was a mission in the Soviet space program. It was launched in August 1962, a day after Vostok 3 with cosmonaut Pavel Popovich on board—the first time that more than one manned spacecraft were in orbit at the same time. The two Vostok capsules came within 6.5 km (4.0 mi) of one another and ship-to-ship radio contact was established.[2] The cosmonauts of Vostok 3 and 4 did not attempt rendezvous. At one point the craft came within a few kilometers of each other and Popovich later reported at a news conference that he saw the other craft from orbit. Popovich is quoted as saying, "I saw it at once," referring to seeing Vostok 3 in orbit. "It looked like a very small moon in the distance." The Vostok 3 and 4 spacecraft landed about 200 km apart, south of Karaganda, Kazakhstan. The mission went largely as planned, despite a malfunction with the Vostok's life-support systems that meant that cabin temperature dropped down to 10 °C (50 °F). The flight was terminated early after a misunderstanding by ground control, who believed that Popovich had given them a codeword asking to be brought back ahead of schedule. The re-entry capsule is now on display at the NPO Zvezda Museum in Moscow, but it has been modified to represent the Voskhod 2 capsule.
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earth to the Stars lead to Red Square for the peoples of the world Moscow has become the mecca of communism and the cosmos [Music] you need regarding was first to blaze a trail in Finn [Music] we plan from an orbit in the sky to an orbit of peace and friendship [Music] inglis other roads traveled by the Sun of the earth who had become the son of the sky everybody wants to see the space era [Music] the second was German Tito he spent more than 24 hours in faith and when he came back to her [Music] the Welcome he was given by nations lands and continents what end [Music] the astronaut shares his thoughts about the peaceful universe outside the earth and of the beast for there the legion of faith heroes grew it was joined by NGO niccola's and battle for body their story is told by our film star goddess research institutes and organizations bridge participated in launching the orbital speed ships Vostok trillion basta for help to make this film scenario by obtaining the optical direction by Dmitri burgundy upon tog Rafi directed by the mission car Duke and eager customers new hey Barbara da drooping how's accorded by anything kulikov [Music] incorporated our pictures taken in space by Andrea Nichol aya and final polish pilot astronauts of the USSR a Moscow popular science film studio production once upon a time that was how they fairy tales that legend used to begin so once upon a time is the way we shall begin our fairy tale and true story of envy on Nick Elias and ever probably there are a people like all of their birthday Joy's walk among young Ethan things like every one of us and if we didn't know them and nobody would ever have the slightest idea but they are the real heroes of fairy tale and legend [Music] who did Titus set themselves the new task of investigating the effects of faith especially of weightlessness on the human being when on a group flight of several days the men to go up where Andrea Nikolaev a communist party member and airman from - Vasya Yuri Gagarin and Gherman t-table but already been in space give him friendly advice on how to prepare for this unprecedented boy nikolai between leave Ivan Popovich also a communist party member and airman but from the Ukraine they are fully resolved to carry out the extremely complicated flight assignment and provide science with invaluable information about the life and work of two Faceman at one and the same time a man can do anything provided he has the knowledge and equipment these techniques are learnt it flatters without knowledge one cannot smell heel of these new trails especially in [Music] yes the Lord is the incarnation of a well-developed intellect and moral integrity [Music] another healthy body the astronaut find every kind of sport useful comes I'm talking a fast-moving game [Music] to cut a long story short the astronauts must excel in weightlifting in track and field event think swimming in gymnastics and even in tightrope walking [Music] healthy spin Center everything classes training and recreation follows a definite timetable the only thing the timetable does not provide for is a few short round [Music] it is winter but in this laboratory it is as hot as in the tropics apparel Popovich but this place is as warm as the equator in the thermal chamber the mercury is already above 70 degrees centigrade this basement is acclimatize to high temperatures and it conditioned we prepared for any contingency that may develop in a brief life mercury rises another two degrees [Music] the astronaut must have increased the vestibular resistance along with the other senses the vestibular apparatus which is the organ of equilibrium or balance and spatial orientation has become very important for long spaceflight [Music] when you are on the swings for a long time and turn your head into the bargain the symbol of resistance is greatly increased [Music] but there are certain visual irritants that turn you titties [Music] to overcome that one must go to special training one must stick on a swing speed when the colored stripes of a rotating wall will blink and alternate around you and you must not let your eyes stray for one pick for [Music] little by little the training given to increase the vestibular resistance grows more and more complicated the rotor reproduces the most unusual situations that may be encountered during a space but things like this happens neither in the air on the TV but all the more so on dry land fast in space even this can happen thanks to special training the astronauts have increased the civil resistance to such an extent that they are well able to withstand the spinning even on the rotor [Music] it was child coughs kid who gave us a rocket the only thing that can break out of the clutches of terrestrial gravitation and take us to other world the first stepping stones of the universe was these Luna ports the first dovish rocket how terrifically large must be the rocket which boosted into the depths of the universe these man-made celestial objects Rockets had already been sent off to the moon and the Sun but we're still unfit to carry a man commanded space like counting space was required and it was in cabins like these that Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov set off for the star [Music] but to the absolutely safe a second cabin is needed this is the thank you [Music] wallspace accoutrement are carefully tested and checked in the first place the spacesuit is tested in a pressure chamber which simulates elevation to tremendous altitude it is here that the test man finds out whether these pink suits will be able in case of a mishap in the spaceship Kevin but to protect the astronauts from oxygen hunger and instantaneous pressure fluctuations the faith suit is really in its way a minut plan with all the conveniences ventilation electric light radio teaching and even [Music] jesseman are real hero they are the very first to try out everything that is there man out in space this is the gas chamber even a molecule of gas must not get through the spaceship while this is a low temperature chamber the frost that will strike may be encountered only at the pool of cold in the icy wastes of the Antarctic [Music] [Music] had also tried out in a special pool you will see a man shot out of a gun in a second but today a man can be shut out of a spaceship cabin shoot the astronauts catapults out upon his return from his trip to the star the spacesuit is quite a security thing in it when we dive without fear into the ocean deep and there quickly shed the suspension arrangements now for the centrifuge [Music] to simulate the takeoff and return over lo that expense faster and faster the overnight increase their already much larger astronaut may encounter invisible force presses the head into the shoulder ins the body to the teeth and needs to fill the eyelid with less faces so greatly distorted has to be unrecognizable but the deaf man doesn't he will supply the astronaut with a stellar Armour that is super sturdy [Music] meanwhile what about the astronauts themselves is not the first time that Martina testing off her husband he may disappear for fortnight but even more even though his overs next door he disappears into the silent chamber [Music] in this chamber the doctors investigate the human being psychological endurance and see how quietness and isolation affected the tension memory thinking and feeling quietness is a medicine but like any medicines in large doses it is harmful every day another shift of doctors takes over the astronaut conducting job here and he always does sticking to his ordinary having Oh [Music] we are methyl [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] hindi only psychologically well-trained man can take it now it is an jion's turn in the talents chamber and in a fortnight when you also grew accustomed to the quietness [Music] [Applause] just look how imperturbable here's the astronauts have to expect a state of weightlessness up in space on earth we have nothing likely people know nothing about [Music] so to train for it weightlessness is simulated on aircraft the cabin is weightless the man is weightless everything's in wiggler [Music] again the pilot gets to playing the longer path anabolics turn again weightlessness Tecton the astronauts must learn how to group in this condition water loses usual form breaking up into little bloke [Music] people also have to learn how to write brain in a state of weightlessness [Music] and to learn how to take pictures with his camera [Music] at last the time comes to rehearse the whole of the space flight from takeoff to landing city is in the cabin of a mock spaceship which simulates all the conditions of a ring space flight [Music] this is the control death the command is given and the astronauts orbit and takes his bearings by the globe everything is as it is during a ringing flood and trees are made in the logbook day after day [Music] the astronaut opens the optical viewing device and lo the cosmos appears before him the expected of it with his film camera in the FASTA given command is switching to manual control [Music] one has the full illusion of a space flood there is the earth down below it's a special projection unit that does the trick [Music] on the road to the Stars anything might happen first of all it is fortitude and a level head that are needed however one must react with this second rapidity and the most actor put down the visor put on [Music] to do this short while ago that gentleman to top himself that here now he passes the relay to Angie on Nikolai how useful the astronauts will find his friends advice and help on his distance boys [Music] the astronauts are trained to fly to the star but they're also taught to return the astronaut mail and without emerging from the spaceship cabin or by the catapulting oh and dropping down by parachute naturally the astronaut was also excelling parachute jumping and so training goes on in the daytime and at night and the astronaut makes one jump after another are to dry ground and to water there he go [Music] puppy is always gay and cheerful never say die there he go [Music] it may very well happen but he returned from outer space in this fashion so you must also be able to parachute down on water as well the New Scientist peak medicine and space biology attacking the task of preparing man for long flights in the car scientists observe the astronauts month-after-month latest types of instruments pencil curved on hundreds of vials of tape to describe the physiological and psychological condition of the astronauts [Music] by making a careful study of all these terms the scientists conclude that both kangan Nikolaev and panel four Povich may be recommended for this unusual journey to the star yes the astronauts are ready to take off but before they do that they get a holiday but you come to Moscow here we are on the Lenin here [Music] bable Popovich shows his little daughter his favorite horse here the astronaut hold near to heart everything for them this is the world their world of music Lily painting natasha has her own favorite spot at the zoo and about the - she has little poem of our own to recite daddy and Auntie Andrew had a bear with me to look and later on they make a present to me about belly at night every dad was taught to give his kid a pony ride James Pannell / polish is a very soft spot in his heart his little girl and this day of farewell to Moscow he wants to show her everything [Music] a good idea is to board the huge ferris wheel and go up with all the family to get a delightful view of Moscow but if the man's our bachelor find himself together with an unknown unit we wonder what she will have to say about her neighbor now [Music] this is something the airman simply can't move don't be scared will buckle you on tighter comes in a shorting board [Music] what a familiar stunt in aerobatic only too close to the ground little Natasha could see her daddy and donkey Andrea and open the sky [Music] happy landing here helping the landing from space will be just as happy [Music] Popovich and his family have gone up [Music] the dasha wants to know whether daddy is frightening when ol I do feel a wee bit afraid fabric or polish returns with a grin Natacha didn't like it too young measure [Music] meanwhile for daddy and Auntie Andrew the time has come to bid goodbye to Moscow home and to mother earth will fight car but no doubt deep down inside to say goodbye banks and bridges until we see again a palaces and towers of the holy crimson the last thing now is to join this interminable stream of people and enter the mausoleum with all who yearn to see delaney the astronauts have made it a rule to come to Red Square to Lenin's tomb before they take off [Music] the everliving venom is a rhythm do it wither to those 15 years for the young Soviet republic was just born with us joining the Dreamtime of the treacherous Nazi invasion a time to the entire people young and old rally to Lenin spanner to defend their happiness both when we are engaged in mortal combat with the enemy and when we are forging the great victory Lenin is always with us is what we do and in what we think in all of our life and it was to you venom at the astronaut your star children come the new socialist society is tackling grant art and it is raring grand heroes to accomplish them [Music] oh yeah has passed since the day again Monty talk big farewell to the Space Center before leaving for the takeoff [Music] [Music] see the Navy a tree and she knows that you must keep a cool head however a heart goes pitter-patter and tears in bounces bring [Music] happy journey Falken happy journey Eko [Music] now we shall win [Music] yeah wait we shall wait as the deep heavens break the coming of the hare
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