Great Victory for Humanity

Types of the night city of Moscow. Production processes at one of the factories. Rocket take off. Radio tower. Scientists at the telescope. Monuments of Ancient Egypt, China. Observatory built by Ulugbek. Portraits: Copernicus, Keckler, Galileo, Newton, Lomonosov, Tsiolkovsky. Chronicle: KE Tsiolkovsky at the table, at the rocket, greets the participants of the May Day demonstration on the radio. May Day demonstration on Red Square. Rocket launch. Camp of geophysicists on Franz Josef Land. Preparing rockets for launch. Launch of meteorological rockets and radiosondes. Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in Brussels. Models of satellites. Rocket launch in the United States. The cruiser "Aurora" in Leningrad. Radio operators watching the flight of a missile on a cruiser. Moscow city. Press conference at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Speakers: A. Topchiev, A. Blagonravov. Journalists ask questions. Schoolchildren on excursions to the Planetarium. Professor A. V. Kukarkin talks about the flight of a space rocket. The President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR A. N. Nesmeyanov speaks about the importance of launching a space rocket on January 2, 1959 towards the Moon. Nikita Khrushchev is speaking.

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1959