Defying Gravity
(2009)
Regisseur:
James D. ParriottSchauspieler:
Paula Garcés, Malik Yoba, Laura Harris, Florentine Lahme, Karen LeBlanc, Ty Olsson, Dylan Taylor, Zahf Paroo, Maxim Roy, Andrew Airlie, Peter Howitt, Eyal Podell, Christina Cox, Ron LivingstonEine internationale Crew, bestehend aus vier Männern und vier Frauen aus fünf Ländern bricht auf, um in einer sechsjährigen Mission das Sonnensystem zu erkunden. Mit dabei: Eine TV-Crew, die das Geschehen an Bord Tag und Nacht dokumentiert und nach Hause zur Erde überträgt.
Hurtling into the vast challenge of infinite space, the eight astronauts and the ground personnel who support them are on a mission that has a powerful and awesome mystery at its core. The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strangely karmic effect on the present. Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process.
Hurtling into the vast challenge of infinite space, the eight astronauts and the ground personnel who support them are on a mission that has a powerful and awesome mystery at its core. The intimate and interconnected relationships among the astronauts and the ground crew, as well as their past actions, have a strangely karmic effect on the present. Episodes are divided between the present, as the Antares travels towards Venus, and the past, with flashbacks to earlier years when the astronauts were in the grueling selection and training process.