If you're a space nut with cable TV, this is your week

[thatcrazycajun]

Discovery Networks' Science Channel kicked off a whole week of space-oriented programming yesterday, called Space Week. The official opener was last night with the premiere of a series called Exodus Earth, in which a hip-looking Brit scientist searches for boltholes we might find elsewhere in the solar system if our motherworld becomes uninhabitable. But the unofficial liftoff actually happened yesterday afternoon, with a marathon of the five-episode documentary Mars Rising. Narrated by William Shatner, the series takes a comprehensive look at precisely what it will take to get humans to the Red Planet, what efforts are under way now to make the trip doable...and the many and serious dangers the first team to go will face—some of them before even getting on the road. Also aired last night was Horizon: The Hawking Paradox, which examines the controversial proposal made by stellar physics' most famous name since the late Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, decades ago about what happens—or doesn't—inside a black hole.

Many of these shows are bound to be repeated, and still others (including more eps of Exodus Earth) are coming as the week goes on; check your listings or the website to see when. It's probably the best thrill all year for fans of the wild black yonder.

Comments

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Last night, and just finished tonight watching Deke Slayton's Moon Shot, made in 1994. I transfered the video tapes I bought to DVD two years ago, so this is a good time to see them again. Then, at the 25th Anniversarry, it was rare to have 4 hours (TV time, 3 hours DVD time), where one was basicly telling the story. And it brought me in, as it allowed the emotions to come out of the story in a way that a documentary narrator would not have been able to do.

[harmonyheifer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! My hubby is a space geek. I recorded what I could find for this week in the repeats. Patrick will be thrilled!