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Space Race first aired on BBC2 in Britain between the 14th of September and the 5th of October 2005. It ran as a four-episode series covering the space race from 1944 to the first Moon landing in 1969.
The series focuses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviet chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. Richard Dillane plays von Braun and Steve Nicolson plays Korolev.
The series was filmed in and around Sibiu, Transylvania, in Romania. Romania's EU co-production treaty status, experienced crews, and moderately priced facilities made it an attractive location for the production.
The series won the Sir Arthur Clarke Award for Best Presentation in the TV and Radio category at the 2006 ceremony. It was also nominated for the Royal Television Society award for Best Production Design, a nomination for Alan Spalding.
The series contains several documented errors, including depicting a Soviet officer executing Polish resistance fighters who found a V-2 (an event that did not happen), and twice having the narrator state that the Mercury-Redstone rocket could put an astronaut into orbit, when it could only achieve a suborbital trajectory peaking around 120 miles up. Several key Soviet figures, including Andrei Tupolev and Mikhail Yangel, are absent from the series entirely.
The series was shot on the Panasonic SDX 900 DVCPro50 professional camcorder, filmed in widescreen at 25 frames per second in progressive mode. The production noted that this approach delivered a gritty, filmic look appropriate to the era.