Did anybody catch this? IIRC it was on the Science Channel. I got 5 hours on DVR, not sure if I caught it all.
The series discussed all the technical difficulties they’re working on. One of the neatest proposed tech bits—the Russians are developing an inflatable heat shield for entering the Mars atmosphere.
One of the neatest planning bits—James Cameron, a documentary film guy, is on the team. They wanted him as a guy who thinks outside the box, and his opinion seems to be taken pretty seriously.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you have to catch it when they show it again.
Cameron’s recent projects have included undersea documentaries on the Bismarck (Expedition: Bismarck, 2002) and the Titanic (Ghosts of the Abyss (2003, in IMAX 3D), and Tony Robinson’s Titanic Adventure (2005)[13]). He was a producer on the 2002 film Solaris, and narrated The Exodus Decoded.
Interesting, I never connected him with the blockbusters…IIRC the committee thought he’d be good because he’d done this underwater stuff and they thought some of the science would transfer to a Mars landing.
Yeah, I watched this, and liked it enough (as somebody who follows this subject closely, there wasn’t a lot of new information, but it’s a nice one-stop package). But it’s been a while; I think I watched it several months ago. This isn’t a new version or something?
I don’t know; I don’t watch that much TV, or at least I don’t watch the Science Channel much. I had no idea there was this much of a push toward really doing it.