Onboard Diary

Guidelines to dream of Russia and Space

Step 1) Watch the documentary The Red Stuff.  A wonderful portrait of several cosmonauts, the begining of the space race and the several deaths following the first manned space trips.
Leonov's or Boris Volynov's confessions -the latter supports The Cosmonaut- are excellent and honest-
Location:Youtube,  8 parts, English subtitles (Thank you Jesús Olmo!) 

Step 2) Watch the three parts of the documentary Red Star in Orbit, inspired by the book with the same title, by the great James Oberg. Absolutely breathtaking. There are images which you never dreamed you'd see. A really deep look into the space race.


The first part talks about Korolyov, the genius behind each Soviet achievement. The second part's about Gagarin's first trip. The third part is about how cosmonauts train in Star City nowadays. Notice that we visited all the places which you can see in this last part and we'll probably be shooting some parts of the film in them :)

Location: The Internet, streaming. No subtitles / Youtube

Step 3) Buy on Amazon, for less than one euro, the book by James Oberg and another one with the title of 'The Russian Space Bluff', written by a rocket engineer from Korolyov's team who emigrated to the United States. 

Location: Amazon.com

Step 4) Read all the documentation which we've been piling up for the script and use them to create your derivated works. There are tens of ideas and fascinating documents about lost cosmonauts, accidents and the history of the Luna programme. Our sources of inspiration... they're yours.

Enjoy them, they're the product of several months of work ;)

Location: Here