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Pluto encounter

Feb 3, 2016

0h 45m

★ 0.0

Overview

Three billion miles away a grand-piano-sized spacecraft is speeding through the outer solar system at nearly 1,000 miles per minute. After nearly a decade in space, the New Horizons space probe will have just 86 seconds to complete its primary mission: Discover the planet Pluto. This time-sensitive special will showcase the first quality pictures of Pluto that the probe will capture.

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Documentary

TV Movie

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Bigger Bang

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Cast

Himself

Jason Silva

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA, the game-changing space programme that put Neil Armstrong on the moon. Yet it was astronauts like Eugene Cernan who paved the uneven, perilous path to lunar exploration. A test pilot who lived to court danger, he was recruited along with 14 other men in a secretive process that saw them become the closest of friends and adversaries. In this intensely competitive environment, Cernan was one of only three men who was sent twice to the moon, with his second trip also being NASA’s final lunar mission. As he looks back at what he loved and lost during the eight years in Houston, an incomparably eventful life emerges into view. Director Mark Craig crafts a quietly epic biography that combines the rare insight of the surviving former astronauts with archival footage and otherworldly moonscapes.

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5.9

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7.0

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6.9

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0.0

Destination astéroïdes

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No overview available.

7.0

Edge of Darkness

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7.2

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10.0

Cosmic Dawn

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For over three decades, NASA and an international team of scientists and engineers pushed the limits of technology, innovation, and perseverance to build and launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory ever created. Cosmic Dawn brings audiences behind the scenes with the Webb film crew, and never-before-heard testimonies revealing the real story of how this telescope overcame all odds.

0.0

The Silent Pulse of the Universe

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6.4

Space Station 3D

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6.4

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

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7.7

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7.2

Roving Mars

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7.3

The 21st Century Race For Space

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10.0

Prehistoric Astronomers

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8.0

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

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6.5

The Wonder of It All

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0.0

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6.1

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