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The Soviet Space Saga

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  • Episode 9 - First Again

    January 6, 2022 · 17 min

    In this final episode of this miniseries, we get a sense of the magnitude of the Soviet success in space by going through all of their firsts. It's a long list! Thank you so much for listening to this podcast, and I really hope to hear…

  • Episode 8 - Setbacks

    December 30, 2021 · 28 min

    Episode 8 - Setbacks The Soviets paid a price for all their firsts in space, and there were victims to their secrets on both sides of the Space Race. But if we remember them and talk about them now, we do the right thing. Listen to the…

  • Episode 7 - To Venus and Mars

    December 23, 2021 · 20 min

    Episode 7 - To Venus and Mars The Soviets hoped to put a red cosmonaut on the Red Planet, and this may have lost them the race to the Moon. But their unmanned missions to Venus and Mars were astounding successes, especially in light of…

  • Episode 6 - The First Woman in Space

    December 16, 2021 · 20 min

    In the Soviet Union, everything was different -- even sexism. Sending the first woman to space was a natural fact of Communism, but like everything else in such societies, egalitarianism had a dual, paradoxical nature. Listen to the story…

  • Episode 5 - First Man in Space

    December 9, 2021 · 54 min

    Until April 12, 1961, nobody had known what the outer space would do to a human being. Some people thought that it would cause insanity; others, blindness. But the first human ever to go there returned home with only the slight side effect…

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  • Episode 4 - To the Moon

    December 2, 2021 · 31 min

    Episode 4 - To the Moon There was a time before July 12, 1969 when the race to the Moon was still very much on -- and the Soviets were winning. Listen to the story of how the Soviets lost the Moon race by winning almost every…

  • Episode 3 - Space Dogs

    November 25, 2021 · 20 min

    The Americans had sent fruit flies to space, and figuring that insects aren't all that closed to humans, the Soviets reused a Sputnik capsule to experiment with dogs instead. Some lived, some didn't, and the most famous of them was Laika…

  • Episode 2 - Sputnik

    November 18, 2021 · 18 min

    The first thing humanity ever sent to Earth's orbit was a shiny metal sphere with four whiskers, and it rocked the world. It was called Sputnik 1, and it led President Eisenhower to declare that "the Soviets had surpassed America and the…

  • Episode 1 - The Space Race from the Soviet Side

    November 11, 2021 · 16 min

    Episode 1 - The Space Race from the Soviet Side The story of space exploration begins with bombs -- because of course it does. Listen how the Soviets went from appropriating Nazi research to creating the biggest rocket ever made at its…

  • Introduction

    November 7, 2021 · 8 min

    Welcome to the Soviet Space Saga, a podcast of nine episodes (plus an introduction) where I tell one of the most fantastic stories in modern history! My name is Alex Deva. I am a novelist, and I work as an IT Architect. I live in Sweden…

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About the show

This is the story of the space programme of the Soviet Union, told from the perspective of the many firsts that it accomplished. My name is Alex Deva, and I invite you on a journey of nine episodes (plus an introduction) to hear about one of the most fantastic sagas in modern history!