The Soviet Space Saga A podcast by Alex Deva

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 back from you!

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 story about the Soviets' less fortunate firsts!

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 the limited technology available in the sixties

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 of Valentina Tereshkova and other women of the space age!

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 of the confusion caused by his sudden promotion to major. Listen to the story of the first man in space, a Soviet pilot named Yuri Gagarin!

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 milestone!

My name is Alex Deva. I am a novelist, and I work as an IT Architect. I live in Sweden. My website is alxx.se and, if you like the way I tell stories, you can look up my books.