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Space Odyssey (TV series), the Glossary

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets, marketed as Voyage to the Planets and Beyond in the United States, is a 2004 two-part fictional documentary created by Impossible Pictures and produced by BBC Worldwide, Discovery Communications and ProSieben.^[1]

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2000s British science fiction television series
Films scored by Don Davis (composer)
Venus in television

Airbus

Airbus SE is a European multinational aerospace corporation.

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Apollo 13 (film)

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Apollo 13 (film) are films about astronauts.

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Apollo 15

Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon.

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Armageddon (1998 film)

Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film produced and directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and released by Touchstone Pictures. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Armageddon (1998 film) are films about astronauts.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Red Button

BBC Red Button is a brand used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

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BBC Worldwide

BBC Worldwide Ltd. was the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in January 1995.

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Carl D. Murray

Carl Desmond Murray (born September 1955) is an Irish academic who is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London (formerly Queen Mary College).

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Charles S. Cockell

Charles Cockell (born 21 May 1967) is a British astrobiologist who is professor of astrobiology in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh and co-director of the UK Centre for Astrobiology.

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Christopher Riley

Christopher Riley (born 1967) is a British writer, broadcaster and film maker specialising in the history of science.

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Colin Stinton

Colin Stinton (born March 10, 1947) is a Canadian-American actor.

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Comet

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.

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Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Carl Sagan.

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David Baker (born 1944) is a prolific British space author and self-described space scientist.

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David Hughes (astronomer)

David W. Hughes (7 November 1941 – 6 June 2022) was professor of astronomy at the University of Sheffield, where he worked from 1965 to 2007.

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David Scott

David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon.

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David Suchet

Sir David Courtney SuchetEngland & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007 (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor known for his work on stage and in television.

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Deep Impact (film)

Deep Impact is a 1998 American science fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

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Discovery, Inc.

Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City.

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Don Davis (composer)

Donald Romain Davis (born February 4, 1957) is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator known for his film and television scores.

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Dust devil

A dust devil (also known regionally as a dirt devil) is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind.

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Dwayne A. Day

Dwayne Allen Day is an American space historian and policy analyst and served as an investigator for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

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Electromagnetic shielding

In electrical engineering, electromagnetic shielding is the practice of reducing or redirecting the electromagnetic field (EMF) in a space with barriers made of conductive or magnetic materials.

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Europa (moon)

Europa, or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.

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Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.

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Framestore

Framestore is a British animation and visual effects studio based on Chancery Lane in London, England.

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From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)

From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part 1998 HBO television miniseries co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks and Michael Bostick.

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Human spaceflight

Human spaceflight (also referred to as manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is spaceflight with a crew or passengers aboard a spacecraft, often with the spacecraft being operated directly by the onboard human crew.

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Huygens (spacecraft)

Huygens was an atmospheric entry robotic space probe that landed successfully on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005.

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Impossible Pictures

Impossible Pictures Ltd.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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Io (moon)

Io, or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.

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Jasper James

Jasper James is a British television producer, director and screenwriter.

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Jean-Pierre Haigneré

Jean-Pierre Haigneré (born 19 May 1948) is a French Air Force officer and a former CNES spationaut.

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Joe Ahearne

Joe Ahearne is an Irish television writer and director, best known for his work on several fantasy and science fiction based programmes including Ultraviolet, Apparitions and Doctor Who.

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John Schwab

John Schwab is an American actor, TV producer and musician who resides in London.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Lourdes Faberes

Lourdes Faberes (born) is a Philippines-born actress based in the United Kingdom.

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Mark Dexter

Mark Lee Dexter (born 21 April 1973) is an English actor who trained at RADA.

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Mark Tandy (actor)

Mark Napper O'Connor Tandy is an Irish stage, film and television actor.

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Melas Chasma

Melas Chasma is a canyon on Mars, the widest segment of the Valles Marineris canyon system, located east of Ius Chasma at 9.8°S, 283.6°E in Coprates quadrangle.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.

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Michele Dougherty

Michele Karen Dougherty One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1962) is a Professor of Space Physics at Imperial College London.

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Michelle Joseph

Michelle Joseph (born May 1970) is a British actress.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun.

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Neutral buoyancy pool

A neutral buoyancy pool or neutral buoyancy tank is a pool of water in which neutral buoyancy is used to train astronauts for extravehicular activity and the development of procedures.

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Ocean Odyssey (TV series)

Ocean Odyssey (working title Oceans) is a two-part, two-hour (the two parts last an hour long) television programme produced for the BBC by the production company Impossible Pictures. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Ocean Odyssey (TV series) are discovery Channel original programming.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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ProSieben

ProSieben (sieben is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media.

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Reduced-gravity aircraft

A reduced-gravity aircraft is a type of fixed-wing aircraft that provides brief near-weightless environments for training astronauts, conducting research, and making gravity-free movie shots.

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Reinhold Ewald

Reinhold Ewald (born 18 December 1956) is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.

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Rings of Saturn

The rings of Saturn are the most extensive and complex ring system of any planet in the Solar System.

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Roscosmos

The State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos" (Государственная корпорация по космической деятельности «Роскосмос»), commonly known simply as Roscosmos (Роскосмос), is a state corporation of the Russian Federation responsible for space flights, cosmonautics programs, and aerospace research.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Science Channel

Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Space Cowboys

Space Cowboys is a 2000 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Space Cowboys are films about astronauts.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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Space.com

Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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The Core

The Core is a 2003 American science fiction disaster film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D. J. Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, Bruce Greenwood, and Alfre Woodard.

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The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Space Review

The Space Review is a free online publication, published weekly with in-depth articles, essays, commentary and reviews on space exploration and development.

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Tim Haines

Tim Haines is a screenwriter, producer and director who is best known for his work on the BBC popular science shows Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, and Walking with Monsters.

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Titan (moon)

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest in the Solar System.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Valles Marineris

Valles Marineris (Latin for Mariner Valleys, named after the Mariner 9 Mars orbiter of 1971–72 which discovered it) is a system of canyons that runs along the Martian surface east of the Tharsis region.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venera 14

Venera 14 (called Venus 14 in English) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus.

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Walking with Beasts

Walking with Beasts, marketed as Walking with Prehistoric Beasts in North America, is a 2001 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and TV Asahi. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Walking with Beasts are discovery Channel original programming.

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Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Cavemen is a 2003 four-part nature documentary television miniseries produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and ProSieben. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Walking with Cavemen are discovery Channel original programming.

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Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Dinosaurs is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit, the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Space Odyssey (TV series) and Walking with Dinosaurs are discovery Channel original programming.

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Walking with...

Walking with... is a palaeontology media franchise produced and broadcast by the BBC Studios Science Unit.

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Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center

The Yuri A. Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC; Russian: Центр подготовки космонавтов имени Ю. А. Гагарина) is a Russian training facility responsible for training cosmonauts for their space missions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Odyssey_(TV_series)

Also known as Pegasus (Space Odyssey), Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets, Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets And Beyond, Voyage to the Planets, Voyage to the Planets and Beyond, Walking with Spacemen.

, Ocean Odyssey (TV series), Pluto, ProSieben, Reduced-gravity aircraft, Reinhold Ewald, Rings of Saturn, Roscosmos, Saturn, Science Channel, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Solar System, Space Cowboys, Space Shuttle, Space.com, Sun, The Core, The Day After Tomorrow, The Globe and Mail, The Space Review, Tim Haines, Titan (moon), University College London, Uranus, Valles Marineris, Variety (magazine), Venera 14, Walking with Beasts, Walking with Cavemen, Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with..., Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Space Odyssey (TV series), the Glossary

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2000s British science fiction television series

Films scored by Don Davis (composer)

Venus in television

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