Name: Race to the Red Planet
Released: 2018-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

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Scientists and engineers dream of a manned mission to Mars - it's a place where life is possible. The race is on to get there: nine months out and nine months back. This is the story of mankind's preparation to colonise the red planet.

Documentary · 2018 · 45 min

Director Paul Russell , Andrea Vogt

EPISODE 1

Engineering

NASA and the European Space Agency are collaborating on two Mars missions, using an Atlas rocket to propel a lander to the red planet and then a rover, ultimately to remotely control a return mission bringing soil sample back to Earth, by 2026.

45 min · 19 Jan 2022
EPISODE 2

Training

The human factor in the Mars project is the single most challenging aspect of the plan. NASA is planning to send robots first, to build the landing base for the humans to inhabit but there are some significant issues with sending humans to Mars.

45 min · 26 Jan 2022
EPISODE 3

The Red Planet

Exploring what we know about Mars, from the water (ice) concentrations, to the methane gas, to the earth - and goes into the reason why Man might be interested in the planet at all - as a possible colony supplying natural resources back to Earth.

44 min · 2 Feb 2022

Paul Russell

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Andrea Vogt

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Paul Russell

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Andrea Vogt

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