Is the TV show The Space Race in Colour available on Netflix, Disney+, Prime or Apple TV+?

Synopsis

Across the 1950s and 1960s, a high-stakes contest between the United States and the Soviet Union turned outer space into the ultimate arena of power, ambition and technological daring. This series traces that escalation—from the launch of the first satellites to the triumph of Apollo—unfolding the human drama behind the headlines: the engineers who pushed the boundaries of possibility, the politicians who saw rockets as instruments of prestige and security, and the tense interplay between scientific vision and military necessity. Beyond the spectacle of moonwalks, the narrative reveals how the struggle for supremacy reshaped intelligence, surveillance and global strategy during the Cold War, and planted the seeds for humanity’s longer-term ambitions off Earth. Through archival footage, personal testimony and expert analysis, the show explores how the race was as much about observation, secrecy and control as it was about exploration—and how those competing priorities set the course for the space age that followed.

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