Race to the Terrestrial Planets [4K]

From studying the dusty surface of Mars, to plunging into the atmosphere of Venus, over the last 60 years, we've launched hundreds of probes into space on trajectories to visit each of the terrestrial planets. But for all the fascinating discoveries made on the way, humanity's journey towards the stars started out in a much darker place- a battlefront between the world's then two great competing superpowers. And in this first episode on my new series on probes, we will revisit this space race, and the major milestones on route to visiting each of the terrestrial planets.
PROBES Episode 1: Race to the Terrestrial Planets
There will be two other episodes of this series in late November and mid-December, eventually covering all of the planets and beyond!
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The space scenes in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator:
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SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- Timeline of Major Milestones in the Space Race: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/...
- Sputnik 2 & Living Creature:: www.britannica.com/topic/Laika
- Pioneer Program: historicspacecraft.com/Probes...
- Mariner 8/9: mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploratio...
- Mariner 9 Mars Photo Gallery: petermasek.tripod.com/mariner...
- Soviet Landing on Mars: www.rferl.org/a/soviet-mars-s...
- Venera Photos of Venus www.planetary.org/articles/ev...
- Mariner 10 images of Venus: www.nasa.gov/image-article/ma...
- MESSENGER: science.nasa.gov/mission/mess...
- Mars Rovers: mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploratio...
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
2:32 The Space Race
4:48 Pioneer Probes
7:32 Mariner Probes
9:55 Mariner 4 Mars Mission
12:27 Mariner 6 & 7
14:27 Mars Orbiters
17:05 Landing on Mars
18:57 Landing on Venus
21:30 The Viking Probes
26:12 Mercury Missions
33:00 Mars Rover Missions
38:16 Closing Statements
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