Generation Sputnik
Generation Sputnik

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Generation Sputnik

6.5(4 votes)
2016
0h 52m
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
pop cultureadvertisingspace exploration1960ssputnikapollo programfuturistic architecture

Overview

From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the surface of the moon—, the beginnings of the space conquest were depicted in popular culture: cinema, television, comics and literature of the time contain numerous references to an imagined future.