Race To Mars

[deapfreeze]

Discovery Channel is having a Mars special.<br /><br />http://www.discoverychannel.ca/shows/showdetails.aspx?sid=1174<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#0000ff"><em>William ( deapfreeze ) Hooper</em></font></p><p><font size="1">http://deapfreeze-amateur-astronomy.tk/</font></p><p> </p> </div>

 

[owenander]

discovery channel is great<br />makes me wish I had cable =(

 

[Boris_Badenov]

When will this be on TV? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[summoner]

<font color="yellow">discovery channel is great<br />makes me wish I had cable =(</font><br /><br />Eww how 20th century. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width:271px;background-color:#FFF;border:1pxsolid#999"><tr><td colspan="2"><div style="height:35px"><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/htmlSticker1/language/www/US/MT/Three_Forks.gif" alt="" height="35" width="271" style="border:0px" /></div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

Thanx for the update!<br /><br />I had heard of this program myself a few months ago, and I am eagerly awaiting it's broadcast. High Def too! How cool is that?<br /><br />This thread I think more properly belongs in the Science Fiction forum rather than Space Science & Astronomy. If this thread isn't moved you should post your information there anyway.

 

[frankmars]

I was just wondering if anyone has heard much about the coming mini series "Race to Mars" supposed to be on Discovery in the next month or so? It's very hard to find any recent news on it.

 

[MeteorWayne]

I haven't heard a peep, but I'll keep an ear out.<br />Thanx for the heads up. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[docm]

"Race to Mars" (2007) (mini)<br /><br /><b>Director:</b> George Mihalka (Da Vinci's Inquest)<br /><br /><b>Writers:</b> Garfield Reeves-Stevens; Judith Reeves-Stevens<br /><br /><b>Synopsis:</b> In the year 2030, the race to be the first to reach the Red Planet is on - and China is leading the way. China has stunned the world by leapfrogging over America's long-term plans and has landed a series of advanced rovers and robotic landers in their quest to make the most important discovery in history - extraterrestrial life on Mars. Once again, America and its partners, including Canada, are thrust into a winner-take-all space race - but the stakes are higher than the race to the Moon nearly seven decades earlier. <br /><br />The international team accelerates its plans - when China prepares to send its final wave of rovers, this consortium will surge ahead and at last launch a human crew. Six extraordinary individuals from Canada, the United States, Russia, France and Japan are selected for this gruelling two-year mission. These four men and two women must work together as a team, rise above their secret fears and struggle with the sacrifice of leaving friends and family behind. Training and determination will get them only so far, and when this crew sets out on humanity's first expedition to another world, nothing can prepare them for the unexpected danger and staggering wonder of what they will experience.<br /><br /><b>Cast (largely Canadian):</b><br /><br />Antoine Hébert: Lothaire Bluteau (24)<br /><br />Lucia Alarcon: Claudia Ferri (Highlander TV, Naked Josh)<br /><br />Jackie Decelles: Pascale Bussières (Le coeur a ses raisons [CDN soap parody])<br /><br />Rick Erwin: Michael Riley (This Is Wonderland[CDN "Law & Order", without the order])<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[frankmars]

Thanks docm, any word on a release date or screening time?

 

[docm]

"Race to Mars" premiers Sept. 23 @ 8 p.m. ET/9p.m. PT on Discovery Channel and Discovery HD (4 hr mini)<br /><br />There are also companion documentaries;<br /><br />"Mars Rising" on the same channels premiering Oct. 7 @ 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT with Wm. Shatner announcing (6 hrs). One cool part in episode 5, "Six Minutes of Terror", shows a ballute reentry on Mars.<br /><br />"Earth to Mars: The Great Space Debate" premiering Nov. 11 @ 7 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT on Discovery Channel (1 hr wrap-up)<br /><br />Check your scheduled times on the non-premiere episodes of Race to Mars and Mars Rising as there bouncing them between 7 PM ET and 9 PM ET.<br /><br />Nice time to have a DVD recorder <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

Race to Mars recently updated their website. Now it has all kinds of info, links and even games.<br /><br />http://www.racetomars.ca/

 

[gunsandrockets]

I am so looking forward this series!<br /><br />One happy surprise -- nuclear rocket engines! If Canadian movie producers of all people don't even blink at nuclear rockets, maybe the oft voiced fear that nuclear reactors are politically unviable for spaceflight applications is not a valid fear after all.

 

[docm]

One can only hope. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[earth_bound_misfit]

Sounds awesome! Hopefully it won't take too long to hit our airwaves down under.<br /><br />I'm a little surprised it's on Discovery though, being fiction and all. Would've thought the Sci-fi channel was more appropriate. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------- </p><p>Wanna see this site looking like the old SDC uplink?</p><p>Go here to see how: <strong>SDC Eye saver </strong>  </p> </div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

<I'm a little surprised it's on Discovery though, being fiction and all. Would've thought the Sci-fi channel was more appropriate.><br /><br />I'm not at all surprised. Race to Mars isn't mindless fiction like Red Planet. The project is intended to be educational as much as entertainment. It's the notion of a spoonful of fiction to make the science go down easier. There is even a companion multi-part pure documentary running in parallel with Race to Mars.

 

[PistolPete]

Didn't the Discovery Science channel air a fictional movie about a hypothetical mission to all of the planets a few months ago? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[docm]

More like last year, but ATM I can't remember the name.<br /><br />Other goodies were the Fantasy-Sci programs Alien Planet, Dino Lab and Dragons. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[kosmonavtkaa]

<font color="orange"><i>In the year 2030, the race to be the first to reach the Red Planet is on - and China is leading the way...</i></font><br /><br />China is where Russia used to be (when the latter was the USSR)...now Russia just seems to be regarded as a "bit player" in space <img src="/images/icons/frown.gif" /> . Still, at least they don't seem to be the bad guys (for once). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

<Didn't the Discovery Science channel air a fictional movie about a hypothetical mission to all of the planets a few months ago?><br /><br />You may be thinking of this BBC 2004 production...<br /><br />Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets<br /><br />I saw it on DVD. It's okay, but perhaps my expectations were too high.<br /><br />I think Race to Mars is looking a lot better so far.<br /><br />

 

[gunsandrockets]

Race to Mars -- 4 hr miniseries drama<br /><br />First two hours showing Sunday September 23, 9pm PST on the Discovery Channel.<br /><br />Mars Rising -- 6 hour miniseries documentary tie-in <br /><br />First episode showing Oct 7<br />

 

[gunsandrockets]

20 hours to go!

 

[docm]

I'll have it on DVD starting tonight (DVD recorder), then we'll compile both episodes and the documentaries into a 2 disc set for our library. Nice having your own edit bays <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

WTH??<br /><br />All I see is stupid re-runs of Survivorman, where is Race to Mars?

 

[PistolPete]

Yeah, I got the same thing too. Further examination of an SDC article showed that it was only on Discovery <i>Canada</i>. <img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[gunsandrockets]

I can't imagine $20 million dollars spent for something that would only show in Canada. This article suggests wide broadcast...<br /><br /><br />http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12743183/ <br /><br />... perhaps the showtimes for the U.S. are different?