[INTRO — M1 | SOVIET LAUNCH CONTROL | DARK ANALOGUE DRONE] [LOUD MECHANICAL CLOCK TICKING — SLOW, RELENTLESS] [SHORTWAVE STATIC — RADIO TUNING] [MALE — DEEP RUSSIAN LAUNCH OFFICER] Десять... Девять... Восемь... Семь... Шесть... Пять... Четыре... Три... Два... Один... Пуск! Пуск!, Пуск!, Пуск!, Пуск!, Пуск!, Пуск!, Пуск! [ROCKET IGNITION — THUNDEROUS RUMBLE] [PSYCHEDELIC GUITAR ASCENT — ANALOGUE OSCILLATOR RISING] [SUDDEN SILENCE] [FAINT RADIO STATIC] BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP.... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP [MALE — SOVIET RADIO ANNOUNCER, FORMAL] Говорит Москва. [MALE — ENGLISH RADIO TRANSLATION] Moscow calling. October fourth, nineteen fifty-seven. The Soviet Union has successfully launched the world's first artificial satellite. Sputnik. BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP [HBC A — ROBOTIC MALE CHOIR | TRIP-HOP ENTERS] BEEP-BEEP-BEEP Pentagon can't sleep Russians flying overhead Generals hiding underneath [V2 — M2 | THE PENTAGON | OMINOUS TRIP-HOP] [SENATOR — ANGRY, INDIGNANT] Was it them? Was it their German scientists? [GENERAL — DEFENSIVE, MATTER-OF-FACT] No, Senator. Our Germans are better than their Germans. [SENATOR — OUTRAGED] I don't want to go to bed under the light of a communist moon! [TELEPHONE RINGS AGAIN] [GENERAL — EXHAUSTED] It's not a moon, Senator. [SENATOR] THEN WHY IS IT BEEPING? [GENERAL — Whispering to himself] Idiot, moons don't beep [HBC C — DISTORTED VOCODER] BEEP-BEEP-BEEP Pentagon can't sleep Their Germans got there first Our Germans look like sheep [HBC D — MACHINE CHANT | HARD METALLIC DRUMS] BEEP-BEEP-BEEP Pentagon can't sleep RED-RED-RED Something overhead [V3 — M3 | THE CHIEF DESIGNER | CINEMATIC PSYCHEDELIC ROCK] [DEEP ANALOGUE DRONE — TICKING CLOCK SLOWS] [DISTANT MALE CHOIR — SOARING GUITAR] [MALE — LOW DOCUMENTARY NARRATOR] Behind the Iron Curtain There was a man without a name. Prisoner of Stalin. Architect of the impossible. They called him... The Chief Designer. [PAUSE] Sergei Korolev. [MALE CHOIR — WORDLESS, DESCENDING GLISSANDI] Oooooooh... Aaaaaaah... [MALE — SPOKEN] They knew his rocket. They heard his satellite. But nobody knew his name. BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP [HBC B — DARK SYNTHWAVE | LOW ROBOTIC VOICES] BEEP-BEEP-BEEP Pentagon can't sleep Secrets buried six feet deep Sputnik doesn't give a beep [V4 — M4 | VANGUARD | GRAND AMERICAN FANFARE] [ROTARY TELEPHONE — CLICK] [TICKING CLOCK] [TELEMETRY BEEPS] [ORCHESTRAL BRASS — HEROIC, OVERCONFIDENT] [AMERICAN ANNOUNCER — TRIUMPHANT] December sixth, nineteen fifty-seven. Today, America enters the Space Age! [GENERAL — COMMANDING] Begin countdown! [ENGINEER] Three! Two! One! [ROCKET IGNITION] [ENGINE ROAR] [BRIEF ASCENDING SYNTH GLISSANDO] [EXPLOSION — VIOLENT ORCHESTRAL CRASH] [ABSOLUTE SILENCE] [MALE — DRY] Well. That didn't go very far. What a piece of crap [TELEMETRY BEEP — FAINT] [GENERAL] BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP.... Is that ours? [ENGINEER] Yes, sir. [GENERAL] Where is it? [ENGINEER — QUIETLY] In the bushes, sir. [LONG PAUSE] [SENATOR — DISTANT, FURIOUS] GET ME THE GERMANS! [FINAL HBC — ALL FOUR RHYTHMIC PATTERNS COLLIDE] BEEP-BEEP-BEEP BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP.... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP... Pentagon can't sleep RED-RED-RED Something overhead BEEP-BEEP-BEEP Russians flying overhead BEEP-BEEP-BEEP Sputnik doesn't give a beep [OUTRO — STRIP AWAY DRUMS, GUITAR AND SYNTHS] [ONLY TICKING CLOCK AND DISTANT SOVIET RADIO TELEMETRY] BEEP ... BEEP ... BEEP ... [STATIC FADES INTO SILENCE]
