00:00Von Braun was charismatic, driven.
00:03He believed rockets could reach the stars,
00:06but his genius served a regime of horror.
00:10May 1945, the war ends.
00:13Von Braun and his team surrender to American forces in Bavaria.
00:19The Amherts will take us, or the Russians will.
00:22We must choose wisely.
00:27They bring blueprints, knowledge, and a vision of space.
00:32The fuel injection angles must align with these thrust curves.
00:36Agreed. The nozzle expansion ratio is critical here.
00:39Let's test the prototype against these specs.
00:41Proceed. Time is short.
00:43Hand me that wrench, quickly.
00:45Here, the alignment is off.
00:47I'll get the fitting.
00:51But across the Iron Curtain, another man watched from the shadows,
00:56a survivor of Stalin's gulags, a genius in secret, Sergei Korolev.
01:03Two men, two nations, one impossible race about to begin.
01:09But one man in the shadows would rise from hell itself to challenge him.
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