Anyone catch this BBC production 'Space Odyssey:
Voyage To The Planets" that aired last week? It was
pretty good, probably the most realistic looking
depiction of future spaceflight I've seen in a long
time, showing a nucleur powered flight through the
solar system. I looked at the companion book at
Border's and apparently BBC did some filming at Star
City in Russia - you can seen their centrifuge in
being used in some of the sequences - and it looks like they might have used some Russian parabolic flights to film some zero-G sequences, too, as was done in "Apollo 13".
It had some pretty impressive stuff - a depiction of a
human landing on Hellishly Hot Venus with the kind of
suit that looks like the hard-shell deep sea "suits"
that are used in extreme deep diving / high pressure
depths, a landing on Io and an EVA among the rings of Saturn. Pretty cool effects in all...
I taped it, but it's something I'll probably buy on DvD.
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From the BBC site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/13/space_sets.shtml
To ensure that the look of the series felt
contemporary and convincing, the series producers
turned to the companies that had helped to create some
of the most authentic and spectacular space movies of
our time.
Wonderworks - the Los Angeles master space set-builder
behind Apollo 13, From The Earth To The Moon, Space
Cowboys, The Core and The Day After Tomorrow - built
and supplied most of the sets for this series.
A modified space shuttle cockpit fitted with a
slightly more futuristic 'glass cockpit' formed the
Pegasus command centre, and Wonderworks' unique
International Space Station set used in The Day After
Tomorrow was adapted for the mothership's lab areas.
The sets were shipped across the world and
reconstructed at two studios to the west of London.
Some parts were then taken to Russia and rebuilt
onboard a cosmonaut training cargo plane to fly real
weightless aerobatics.
The Hollywood costume house, Global Effects, who
supplied space suits to Apollo 13, Deep Impact,
Armageddon, Contact and the TV series Earth To The
Moon, designed and built the Venus and Io suits used
in this series.
The company also modified their space shuttle EVA
(spacewalk) suits from Space Cowboys for the actors'
Mars, Pluto and comet scenes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/13/space_further.shtml
The ultimate journey of human exploration comes to BBC
ONE this November
Voyage To The Planets" that aired last week? It was
pretty good, probably the most realistic looking
depiction of future spaceflight I've seen in a long
time, showing a nucleur powered flight through the
solar system. I looked at the companion book at
Border's and apparently BBC did some filming at Star
City in Russia - you can seen their centrifuge in
being used in some of the sequences - and it looks like they might have used some Russian parabolic flights to film some zero-G sequences, too, as was done in "Apollo 13".
It had some pretty impressive stuff - a depiction of a
human landing on Hellishly Hot Venus with the kind of
suit that looks like the hard-shell deep sea "suits"
that are used in extreme deep diving / high pressure
depths, a landing on Io and an EVA among the rings of Saturn. Pretty cool effects in all...
I taped it, but it's something I'll probably buy on DvD.
-------
From the BBC site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/13/space_sets.shtml
To ensure that the look of the series felt
contemporary and convincing, the series producers
turned to the companies that had helped to create some
of the most authentic and spectacular space movies of
our time.
Wonderworks - the Los Angeles master space set-builder
behind Apollo 13, From The Earth To The Moon, Space
Cowboys, The Core and The Day After Tomorrow - built
and supplied most of the sets for this series.
A modified space shuttle cockpit fitted with a
slightly more futuristic 'glass cockpit' formed the
Pegasus command centre, and Wonderworks' unique
International Space Station set used in The Day After
Tomorrow was adapted for the mothership's lab areas.
The sets were shipped across the world and
reconstructed at two studios to the west of London.
Some parts were then taken to Russia and rebuilt
onboard a cosmonaut training cargo plane to fly real
weightless aerobatics.
The Hollywood costume house, Global Effects, who
supplied space suits to Apollo 13, Deep Impact,
Armageddon, Contact and the TV series Earth To The
Moon, designed and built the Venus and Io suits used
in this series.
The company also modified their space shuttle EVA
(spacewalk) suits from Space Cowboys for the actors'
Mars, Pluto and comet scenes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/10_october/13/space_further.shtml
The ultimate journey of human exploration comes to BBC
ONE this November
