About this episode
In this episode, we continue our investigation into Sputnik 1, its troubled development, and the politics that went into world's first satellite. Topics covered include: - Khrushchev being so sold on rockets he slashes the Red Army by a third - Rival engineers who got each other sent to the gulag - Building a rocket site in the most inhospitable place on Earth - Two revolutions, one coup d'état, and the least-bloody purge in Soviet history