The 21st Century Race for Space

Today on Far Future Horizons we present “The 21st Century Race for Space” hosted by Brian Cox.

The Immortals

Princess Enheduanna

Today on Far Future horizons we present the eleventh episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

In this installment we explore the how life may have developed on Earth and the possibility of life on other planets.

Crash Landing on Mars

Today on Far Future Horizons we explore the scenario of what might happen if the first manned mission to Mars crashes hundreds of miles from the rocket that would take them back home?

This installment of the History Channel’s acclaimed documentary series The Universe explorers this dire possibility.

Star Trek - Secrets of the Universe

In order to honor the memory of Leonard Nimoy, we present today on Far Future Horizons the History Channel documentary Star Trek - Secrets of the Universe.

This documentary coincided with the release of the motion picture, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), the very last motion picture which Leonard Nimoy starred in and where he reprised his role as Mr. Spock.

Living on the Moon

"If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, He would have given man a moon." ~ Krafft Ehricke

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a fascinating episode from the National Geographic Channel’s documentary series “Naked Science”.

In this installment of “Naked Science” we look at the exciting possibility of using our celestial neighbour, the Moon, as a stepping stone that will allow humanity to colonise the solar system and beyond.

Race to Mars

The Terra Nova carries six astronauts from Earth to Mars

Today on Far Future Horizons we present Race to Mars.

Mars Rising - The Search for Life

Today on Far Future Horizons we will explore one of the most enduring and tantalising questions connected to the red planet. In the sixth and final instalment of the Discovery Channel's landmark television series Mars Rising - The Search For Life. William Shatner narrates this exciting series.

Mars Rising - Six Minutes of Terror

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of the acclaimed documentary series “Mars Rising” – “Six Minutes of Terror”. William Shatner narrates this exciting series.

Mars is littered with the carcasses of crashed robotic landers and the Martian environment is very unforgiving. Historically there has been a fifty percent failure rate in all previous landings attempts.

Mars Rising - The Human Factor

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of the acclaimed documentary series “Mars Rising” – “The Human Factor”. William Shatner narrates this exciting series.

Mars Rising - Staying Alive

Today on Far Future Horizons we present another exciting episode of the acclaimed documentary series “Mars Rising” – “Staying Alive”. William Shatner narrates this exciting series.

Mars Rising - Rocket Power

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the second episode of “Mars Rising” – “Rocket Power”. William Shatner narrates this exciting series.


The spacecraft that will take a crew to Mars will be assembled—in space. Up to ten rockets will be required to carry equipment and the astronauts to the mothership. The fifty six million-kilometer journey to and from the Red Planet could take up to three years. Will the fuel be thermo-nuclear or super-heated charged particles? Engineers must get it right the first time—or the astronauts will die.

Electric Ion Mars Spacecraft by Winchell Chung from Disney's Mars and Beyond

                                                                   

Journey to the Red Planet

Today on Far Future Horizons we present the first episode of “Mars Rising” – “Journey to the Red Planet”. William Shatner narrates this exciting series.

Secrets of the Space Probes & Alien Planet

Daedalus star probe design from a British Interplanetary Society study completed in the late 1970s. Credit: © David A. Hardy at www.astroart.org

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a double video feature concerning the future of those pathfinding and intrepid robotic explorers known as Space Probes.

Space probes are the robotic scouts of space exploration and are paving the way for the age when humans eventually venture forth and explore the other worlds of our solar system and beyond.

They have discovered water on other planets, and snatched the actual building blocks of life from a comet’s tail. But can space probes find a new Earth or even make contact with alien life?

In the twenty-first century, space probes are currently photographing, drilling the crust and even sniffing the air of alien worlds in the quest for life, and scanning thousands of distant suns trying to detect Earth-like planets. It’s only a matter of time before space probes unlock the secrets to extra-terrestrial life and the universe itself.

Today’s feature documentaries are the fifth season episode of the highly acclaimed documentary series “The Universe – Secrets of the Space Probes” currently airing on the History Channel and the highly acclaimed Discovery Channel Special “Alien Planet” which premiered on May 14, 2005. 

Voyage to Pandora: Humanity's First Interstellar Flight

Today on Far Future Horizons we take an imaginary voyage to the world of Pandora depicted in the motion picture Avatar and look at the possibility of humanity one day taking a very real interstellar odyssey to worlds beyond our solar system.

The setting of the movie Avatar takes place in the year 2154 on the terrestrial like moon of Pandora.

Pandora is a lush, Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora is inhabited by the Na'vi, a ten-foot-tall blue-skinned species of sapient humanoids, who live in harmony with nature, worshiping a mother goddess called Eywa.

Its location is a real place - Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system.

Remarkably, it is anti-matter, the science fiction fuel of choice that could take us there. Normally, it's only created in powerful jets that roar out of black holes. We can now produce small quantities in Earth-bound particle colliders. Will we journey out only to plunder other worlds? Or will we come in peace? The answer may depend on how we view our home world, the Earth, at that time in the distant future.