User Reviews

I really like it, i like how they showed us the beginning of the race and how it ends and also when they talk about how the human must be in one side to protect the our Planet

I really enjoyed this episode once the film started getting into the competition between USA and Russia. Russia made a lot of "firsts" and USA was falling behind. The US eventually came back in the lead when they got the first man on the moon. This film is biased and sees USA as the "good guy".

The Mercury 7 group of men are all cute and funny. Handsome men and they showed a clip of a joke one of the men made about the openings of the body.

John F. Kennedy has a transatlantic voice and so do most of the people in the earlier days shown in the film.

Great overview of the space race with interesting additonal info about the time and the different things that happened and contributed to the space race like the cold war.

But there was some wrong information, for example did they say 30 people died to this day connected with space travel and all of them during tests. I don't know the exact number of deaths in space travel, but i know for a fact that 18 people died during missions, not in tests. 12 astronauts, 2 civilians and 4 cosmonauts.

Additionally there where some wrong pictures used, like pictures from astronauts on the moon that were shown while they talked about Neil Armstrong but could only be astronauts from Apollo 14 onwards because of the red stripes on their suits.

The thing with the photographs isn't that bad because if you don't know it it's just any astronaut on the moon. But the information about the deaths in space travel was very wrong. Finding mistakes like that in documentaries always makes me question the accuracy of all the other facts they show that i don't know as much about.

I mean I understand the USSR are the bad guys and all, but losing 6-2 to them in space race, and then calling it a win for being first to go to moon is just silly. The score counter in the show literally resets when the US lands on the moon and the score becomes 1-0 for some reason, and the "space race" turns into "race to the moon" as if that was the agreed objective. The rest of the episode refers to the space race as the first to do something, like spacewalk, first man, first space station etc.

I was pleasantly surprised when a Western documentary was running up the (accurate) score of the Soviets victories in the space race. Then, like every ignorant American claiming the nonsense of "winning the space race", the documentary wipes the 6-1 Soviet lead because apparently the documentary decided only the moon landing counts now. Also, even when mentioning the Soviets are the first to put a space station in space, the documentary decides to abandon the score card altogether now....

Here's my problem with all this, when as a "non biased" "documentary" is this brazen with propoganda, how can I continue to watch other episodes hoping to learn something when I know there's an unnecessary propoganda spin to what was supposed to be facts.

Another Netflix documentary losing all merit.