BBC – SpaceOdyssey – Voyage To The Planets
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This is a fantastic series made by the BBC. It is a dramatisation about how we would travel to mars, jupiter and even pluto.

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Full description is taken from these links:
Episode 1
Episode 2

Full Description:
Episode 1

The interplanetary spacecraft Pegasus and her five-strong crew are launched into Earth orbit. Their epic six-year mission has begun.

Their first encounter with Venus lies just 41 days away from Earth.

Although it’s Earth’s nearest neighbour, Venus could not be a more different world. With clouds of sulphuric acid, surface temperatures pushing 500°C, snows of metal that encrust mountain peaks and atmospheric pressures that could destroy a submarine, this is a hell-hole of a planet.

Astronauts Zoe Lessard and Yvan Grigorev make the nail-biting descent in a landing craft called Orpheus.

As the lander plummets to the surface in a fireball enveloped in a shroud of gases, Pegasus loses contact with the Orpheus crew. Cocooned in the supremely re-enforced landing craft, though, the astronauts land safely.0

Encased in an ultra-toughened titanium spacesuit, Yvan takes mankind’s historic first steps on to the planet.

His objectives are to collect samples, lay sensors to listen for volcanic eruptions and to retrieve a piece of a robot from a previous Russian mission – but soaring temperatures inside his suit prove almost too much.

With everything that’s keeping them alive at its design limits, these two planet pioneers make their escape with only seconds to spare.

Mars is 240 million kilometres and 62 days of interplanetary travel away.

Mission Commander Tom Kirby, medic and geologist John Pearson and exo-biologist Nina Sulman make their descent in another specially designed lander, Ares.

This frozen, red planet should prove comparatively easy to explore compared to the ferocious conditions on Venus but, as Tom steps onto the surface, a dust devil, five times larger than anything on Earth, engulfs him.

Fortunately, the Martian atmosphere is so weak that even these giant twisters are harmless. It does Tom no permanent damage, bar leaving a red hue all over his spacesuit!

Supported by a host of robotic explorers, the crew head for the edge of Valles Marineris – a canyon system a thousand times the size of Arizona’s Grand Canyon.

Their quest is to search for water in an attempt to discover life on Mars.

Marvelling at the breathtaking views, the team is suddenly alerted to the imminent arrival of a solar storm carrying lethal levels of radiation.

The safest place is inside Ares. Desperate to complete the experiments, their struggle back becomes a race for their lives.

Battling against radiation and giant dust storms, the team eventually complete their exploration of Mars and return to Pegasus.

They must now cross the inner Solar System for an unsettling, but necessary, close encounter with the Sun at temperatures approaching a staggering two million degrees centigrade.

This accelerates Pegasus briefly to one million kilometres an hour, which helps propel them the next 800 million kilometres to Jupiter.

On the way, however, a scary brush with a rogue fragment of rock begins to erode the crew’s trust in Mission Control back on Earth.

As they crash into the top of giant Jupiter’s immense atmosphere a few weeks later, there is concern that Control might have betrayed them again.

Even more worryingly, flight medic John Pearson seems to be getting very sick.

Episode 2

Just over 200 days of travel from the Sun, Pegasus reaches the largest planet of the Solar System, Jupiter.

Danger lies in a menace lurking at Jupiter’s core – a churning mass of liquid metallic hydrogen that inflates a magnetic bubble around the planet, producing levels of radiation 500 times the dose that would kill a human.

To repel these lethal rays, Pegasus generates its own magnetic field.

Mission geologist Zoe is to land on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. As the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, it’s a geologist’s heaven.

This scientific bounty does, however, come at a price. Perilously close to the most lethal Jovian radiation belts, Zoe risks severe exposure but she’s trained hard for this day and nothing is going to stop her exploring these exotic lava flows.

Her exhilaration at being on the surface quickly turns to frustration when her spacesuit malfunctions. Even the most cutting-edge technology and millions of pounds of development cannot guarantee safety in these other worlds.

Zoe is forced to cut the mission short. No samples are returned and, to her despair, half the expedition is a failure.0

The ringed world of Saturn is almost a year of interplanetary travel away. By the time they reach it, medic John is seriously sick and deteriorating rapidly. He seems to have been exposed to a lethal level of radiation as Pegasus passed the Sun.

Amongst a mesmerizing trillion shards of ice and rocks tumbling in endless rings around this gas giant, crew member Nina Sulman conducts a spacewalk.

She collects a fragment for testing, hoping it will help establish the rings’ origins and age.

By the time she returns, John has passed away, no longer able to fight the radiation in his body. His death is a terrible blow to the astronauts.

Torn between returning to Earth or venturing on to Pluto, at the edge of the Solar System, the psychological stress takes its toll and the crew take the unprecedented step of cutting contact with Mission Control whilst they make up their minds.

Eventually, the astronauts re-establish communication having decided to continue on their Plutonian path.

Almost two years elapse before Pegasus draws close to the tiny frozen world of Pluto, its massive moon hanging close by.

Tom and Yvan make the descent and spend 10 days constructing a telescope which will remain on the surface after they leave, scouring the Galaxy for other Earth-like planets.

Heading for home, there is one final mission: to land on a newly observed comet, Messier, to sample pristine material from the birth of the Solar System in a search for the organic building blocks of life.

As the crew rests inside their lander, the comet suddenly starts breaking up without warning, shedding material into space and blocking a safe return to orbit.

Zoe and Nina make a dramatic emergency launch to bring them within sight of Pegasus, but comet debris has breached its hull, injuring Yvan.

Tom is busy fighting a fire on board. The safety of Earth suddenly seems a long way off…