Phobos - Success or Failure

The film tries to answer the question: why did the two Soviet Phobos space stations die? The filmmakers are interviewing two leaders of the experiment: General Designer of the Lavochkin Research and Production Association - VM Kovtunenko and Director of the Institute of Space Research - A. A. Galeev. These interviews reveal the main reasons for the failure of the Phobos project. The film includes the following filming: 1 part. Newsreel footage: pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in a spacesuit before landing on the Vostok spacecraft. Yu.A. Gagarin climbs the stairs to the elevator. General view of the launch pad at the cosmodrome. Rocket start. Solemn meeting of the first cosmonaut of the planet in Moscow: a demonstration on the streets of Moscow. The first space satellite to orbit the Earth. Lunar rover on the moon. View of the hall of the KDS during one of the congresses of the CPSU. The launch of the spacecraft and the explosion of the rocket in the sky. Hall of the Mission Control Center. Employees of the Center at the screens monitor the flights of the stations Phobos-I and Phobos-II to Mars. Project leaders including V.M. Kovtunenko are watching the flight of the Phobos-II station, and they are conferring after the Phobos-I station is shut down. The scriptwriter of the film I. Nakhamkin at home, talking with the director of the Institute of Space Research A.A. Galeev (sinhr.), Interviews V.M. Kovtunenko (sinhr.). Part 2. Newsreels (video): Rocket in the bunker. Rocket start. Speech by V.M. Kovtunenko at a press conference (sinhr.). A.A. Galeeva and V.M. Kovtunenko with I. Nakhamkin (sinhr.). Station "Phobos" in the assembly shop of NPO named after S. Lavochkin. Press conference of Soviet and foreign experts on the flights of the stations "Phobos-I" and "Phobos-II". Jeffrey Briggs, Director of NASA's Solar System Programs, speaking at a press conference. I. Nakhamkin talks with scientists. General view of the antenna for space communications on / "Medvezhye Ozera" /.

Color

2

1989