Space Odyssey - Mission to the Planets
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| German title | Space Odyssey - Mission to the Planets |
| Original title | Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Joe Ahearne |
| script | Joe Ahearne |
| production | Christopher Riley |
| music | Don Davis |
| camera | Nick Dance |
| cut | Jason Krasucki |
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Space Odyssey - Voyage to the Planets is a fictional BBC - Documentary about a manned journey through the solar system .
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The 1.7 km long spaceship Pegasus was built under the leadership of CSA , ESA , NASA and Roskosmos . The ship, powered by a nuclear drive and solar panels , is to take the five-man crew to Venus , Mars , Jupiter - the moon Io and Saturn , after which it will be decided whether the journey will continue to Pluto or whether the crew will return to Earth .
The team consists of the US head of mission Tom Kirby, the Russian flight engineer Yvan Grigorev, the British doctor John Pearson, the Canadian geologist Zoë Lessard and the British exobiologist Nina Sulman.
After 41 days, the Pegasus reaches Venus, Grigorev and Lessard touch down with the Orpheus lander near the Venera 14 space probe that landed in 1983 . While the Canadian stays on board, Grigorev sets up a network for seismographic measurements and takes soil samples.
On the 117th day of the expedition, the Pegasus entered a Mars orbit . Mission leaders Kirby, Pearson and Sulman land on the Ares ferry near Valles Marineris to use a robot to search for water and signs of life. Due to a solar flare and a dust storm , the team had to interrupt the experiments and spend several days in the space shuttle. After 20 days, Ares returns to the Pegasus .
To get to the outer planets , the spaceship flies past the sun and Mercury . In order to better protect itself from the radiation, the Pegasus generates its own magnetic field . When, when crossing the asteroid belt - due to a misjudgment of the mission control - almost a collision occurs, the mood is at zero.
Before entering the Jupiter system on the 411th day of the mission, both solar panels are thrown off because they can no longer supply enough energy due to the distance to the sun. With the space shuttle Hermes , Zoë Lessard lands on the moon Io , but because of the high radiation exposure she has to stop exploring a volcanic crater and fly back without any material samples. An unmanned probe succeeds in bringing drill samples from the moon Europa back to the Pegasus .
The 10-month trip to Saturn is shaped by the health of the on-board doctor John Pearson. Due to high radiation exposure, he developed lymph gland cancer . The doctor dispensed with chemotherapy because its secretions , the water treatment plant would overload the ship and so also the drinking water of the other crew members contaminate would. A probe that is supposed to examine the moon Titan fails without providing the desired data. On the 803rd day of the mission, the on-board doctor John Pearson dies. His body is buried in the Cassini Partition . The crew decides to continue the mission and sets course for Pluto .
Tom Kirby and Yvan Grigorev land at 1372. day of the mission with which - according to the researchers Clyde Tombaugh named - Ferry Clyde on Pluto. After setting up six telescopes to explore Earth-like planets, they put down a plaque for all of the people who died while exploring space. Grigorev speaks the words of Konstantin Eduardowitsch Ziolkowski : "The earth is the cradle of mankind, but man cannot stay in the cradle forever."
On the way back to Earth, the crew tries to take rock samples on a comet , but has to abort the operation. After 2241 days, the four researchers return to Earth.