This is the story of the 20th century's greatest adventure, the conquest of space, told through the intertwining destinies of two men who were its principal architects: Russia's Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev, and America's Wernher von Braun, a German who was taken to America to head the nation's rocket programme at the end of World War II. Two epic career paths for two exceptional figures. Two geniuses who never even met, but who, over a 40-year period, waged a relentless battle to be the first to reach the moon. The adventure began in the 1930s, on a wasteland in a Berlin suburb or the outskirts of Moscow, and ended on July 20th 1969 on lunar soil, an adventure that included the involvement of figures such as Stalin, Hitler, Nikita Khrushchev, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Walt Disney. 'S e seo sgeulachd an turais as dàna dhan 20mh linn, dha na speuran, air innse tro bheatha dithis, Sergueï Pavlovitch Korolev, an Ruiseanach, agus Wernher von Braun, a rugadh sa Ghearmailt agus a ghluais a dh' Ameireaga. Dà dhreuchd mhòr airson dà dhuine air leth. Dithis ealanta nach do choinnich a-riamh, ach a bha a' strì an aghaidh a chèile thairis air dà fhichead bliadhna airson na gealaich a ruighinn an toiseach. Thòisich an sgeulachd anns na 1930an air làrach air iomall baile Berlin no taobh a-muigh Moscow, agus chrìochnaich e air an 20mh den Iuchar 1969 air a' ghealaich, an dèidh coinneachadh ri leithid Stalin, Hitler, Nikita Khrushchev, John Fitzgerald Kennedy agus Walt Disney.