Everything about Race To Mars totally explained
Race to Mars is a 2007 Canadian television mini-series about a fictitious mission to
Mars that's based on contemporary international research. The first part aired on
Discovery Channel Canada and its
High Definition channel on
September 23,
2007 and the second part on
September 30. It was produced in association with
Galafilm Inc.
A companion book of the same title, written by Dana Berry, was also published in September 2007. It was offered as a selection of the
Science Fiction Book Club.
A companion 6 episode TV documentary mini-series, using sequences shot for the Race to Mars TV mini-series, called
Mars Rising, aired from
October 7 to
October 21,
2007.
Plot
The four-hour mini-series begins in the year
2029 and follows an international crew of six
astronauts from the
United States,
Russia,
France,
Canada and
Japan on their nineteen-month journey to
Mars and back as part of the Olympus mission. They suffer numerous equipment failures along the way, eventually traced back to
fraud on the part of a
subcontractor. The international team is racing against
China, who have already landed a robot on Mars. The robot finds water, but it contains too much
calcium chloride for it to contain life. Meanwhile, the Olympus' drilling equipment is irreparably damaged by a Martian storm. The crew sends an impassioned plea back to Earth to asking to allow them to cannibalize the Chinese robot lander, saying that the exploration of Mars should be for mankind and not be limited by politics.
The crew's proposal is accepted, and they redouble their drilling efforts. After days of non-stop work, they finally strike water, but crew member Hiromi is killed when pressure builds in the well causing an explosion that knocks over a beam of the drilling platform and crushes his spacesuit. After they ascend back to the main spacecraft for the journey home, the entire crew becomes gravely ill. They suspect infection by Martian microbes, but commander Rick Erwin refuses to open the seals on their Martian samples for fear of further contamination. It is discovered that carbon monoxide poisoning is the actual culprit, and they manage to deal with the problem. On final approach to Earth it's discovered that the Terra Nova's braking thrusters are malfunctioning making a safe return impossible unless repairs are carried out. After a dangerous spacewalk they repair the damage, but astronaut Antoine Hebert is nearly killed by electrocution. The mini-series ends as Olympus' crew module prepares to land and then cuts to a scene in the year 2095 to show a Mars base named for
Robert H. Goddard, situated near to Hiromi's grave site.
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