Product: Space Race [Regions 2,4]
Rating: 5.0
Overdue in the USA
This BBC program was broadcast in the USA by National Geographic. The four hour program, based on Deborah Cadbury's well researched "Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space", is very well done. It depicts the simultaneous efforts of the Russian/USSR Chief Designer, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev and the German/USA Rocket Scientist, Werner Von Braun, to send a man to the moon and bring him back safely.Information about Korolev is so hard to find in the USA that I'd think this video would be welcomed here and readily available. Not so.This DVD has been available since 2006 in the UK/PAL but not in the US/NTSC. Why is that? Do we need to depend on YouTube for everything? From what I've seen of it there, this is a top notch production. You can visit the National Geographic website for more information about the program. I emailed National Geographic as to product availability. They say it's not available. Why not?BTW, I recommend James Harford's thoroughly researched "Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon" highly.