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Red Space: The Secret Russian Space Program. This four part documentary uses photos, videos, and interviews to piece together the turbulent Russian Space program. In a race with the U.S. to control space and reach the moon the program achieved many successes and many setbacks. The two superpowers of that era pushed each other to win the space race.

Russia enters 'space race' to build moon base By Graeme Baker Last Updated: 5:57pm BST 31/08/2007 Russia has revived another Cold War rivalry by entering a new “space race” with America to build a permanent base on the Moon. The moon from Moscow's Novodevichy Monastery Anatoly Perminov, the head of the space agency Roskosmos, said Russia would organise a manned lunar mission by 2025 and would be ready to build an “inhabited station” between 2027 and 2032. From there, cosmonauts could strike out on a long-planned mission to Mars as early as 2035. “According to our estimates we will be...