KOROLEV VS. VON BRAUN

Their rivalry has often changed society

An episode from the series FACE TO FACE

Synopsis

This is the story of the 20th century greatest adventure, the conquest of space, recounted through the intertwining destinies of 2 men who were its principal architects: Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev, the Russian, and Wernher von Braun, born in Germany, later an American.

These 2 geniuses never even met but, over a 40-year period, waged a relentless battle to be the first to reach the moon.

The adventure began in the 1930’s, on a wasteland in a Berlin suburb and the outskirts of Moscow, and ended on July 20, 1969, on lunar soil.