TV's Space Week: Reaching for the Space Station and Beyond
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NASA'splans to fling astronauts out to the Moon and Mars will step out of the futureand into your living room tonight asThe Science Channel launches its first-ever"Space Week."
Between May6 and May 12,The Science Channel will debut a series of programsranging from inside looks at theInternationalSpace Station (ISS) andNASA'snext spaceship to future plans for manned lunar base camps.
"Spaceis a powerful catalyst for exploration and imagination," Jane Root, presidentand general manager for theDiscovery Channel andThe Science Channel,in a statement. "Today's greatest scientific minds are tapping this power todetermine real possibilities of the potential for humans in space."
"Space Week"intersperses planetary studies of our solar system with nightly premieres that kickoff tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT with "Space Station and Beyond," which presents viewsof the still-unfinished $100 billion orbital laboratory from the by astronautswho've been there and future plans to push human space exploration outwards.
The Moongets its close up Monday in "Base Camp Moon" to chronicle Earth's only naturalsatellite and NASA's plans to return human explorers to its surface by 2020. TheU.S. space agency's Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, a Lockheed Martin-builtspacecraft slated to make its first flight in early 2015 after the spaceshuttle fleet's 2010 retirement, follows Tuesday in "Starship Orion: The Futureof Space Travel."
Two separatespotlights on the red planet run between May 9 and 10, beginning the U.S. premiere of "MarsUnderground," a documentary detailing plans for a direct human expedition long-supportedby Mars Society founder and engineer Robert Zubrin.
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NASA's twinMars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which have both spent more than1,000 Martian days exploring the red planet, close out Space Week in "RovingMars," an IMAX film chronicling the robot's early mission.
"With 'SpaceWeek' our commitment is to immerse viewers in scientific efforts to helpfurther understanding of these possibilities and knowledge of what lies beyondEarth," Root said.
TheScience Channel's Space Week begins at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT nightly (check locallistings) between May 6-12. For more information,clickhere.
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