00:00Every empire's proudest victory is built on a secret written in blood.
00:061957, the pinnacle of rocket engineering takes flight.
00:10A massive intercontinental ballistic missile launching into history.
00:15But behind the grandeur lies a dark shared sin that both superpowers tried to erase.
00:22Tens of thousands perished in forced labor camps to forge the world's first ballistic weapons.
00:28Slave labor built the foundation for humanity's greatest reach.
00:32For the military minds, space was never the primary goal.
00:36It was total global supremacy.
00:39Ballistic missiles first, space second.
00:42While the western chief designer steps into the public spotlight,
00:45his rival plots in absolute secrecy, masked by the shadows of a secretive regime.
00:51Two men, two nations, one deadly gamble.
00:56Who reaches orbit first?
00:58And who pays the ultimate price?
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