Rockets Double Video Pack (Includes: Missiles of the Cold War, Man in Space, First Steps to the Stars, The Vengeance Weapons) The History Channel Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a 4 part documentary that aired on the History channel around 1997. The episodes are:
First Steps to the Stars
The Vengeance Weapons
Missiles of the Cold War
Man in Space
The program does a very good job covering the history of rockets from the early days up through the space program. The second episode gives particularly comprehensive coverage to the German V2 program of WWII - it's development, the facilities, the capture, and transfer to the US of German war materials. Some fairly unusual footage can be found in this section.
There are classroom study guides for two of the episodes on the History Channel web site:
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This program would be enjoyable for anyone interested in space technology or the relationship between development of rockets and missiles for military purposes and the US and Russian space programs.

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This series examines the technological evolution of rockets and their impact on military systems and space travel. Rockets are one of the technological marvels of the twentieth century and have changed the world, for both the better, and as some might argue, for the worse. Rockets! provides an in-depth exploration of these wonders of our time, and how they have affected the history of the twentieth century. Rockets! would be useful for classes on American History, Science and Technology, Geography, Physics and Military History. It is appropriate for middle school and high school.