The Farthest

2018 "12 billion miles and counting..."
The Farthest
8.1| 2h1m| en| More Info
Released: 15 March 2018 Released
Producted By: ARTE
Country: United States of America
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Official Website: http://www.pbs.org/the-farthest
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The captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity's greatest achievements in exploration: NASA's Voyager mission.

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Kenyae Kofi I love this movie and how many scientist were discussing about the experience with voyaging space. To see how Jupiter was formed and how it had its own vortex and how the magnetic force around Jupiter could form its own particles. Also, to hear that if you go in the middle of Jupiter you could melt from the gas planet. I loved seeing the journey for other life forms and even though the language was sort of making assumptions of other life forms. The evidence pieces that were shown were definitely challenging. I hope we do find other life forms. It was cool to see Lawrence Krauss as well.
bettycjung 2/21/18. I love documentaries about Space, but for some reason this only came across as okay. I thought it would have been a more scientific retelling of everything Voyager has done, and it has done a lot, but instead it was just people involved talking what they did. I suppose hearing it first-hand could make it seem more inspiring, but just a documentary about the mission the Voyager set out to accomplish would have been a lot more interesting (at least to me). There, however, was some good NASA footage, but it should have included more!
siderite The Voyager mission is one of the most interesting in of all NASA. Two spacecraft which have been functioning since their launch in 1977, the year I was born, are still sending data as they race outside of the Solar System. This film is telling the story of the mission and the people that worked in it and how important this mission was for the knowledge and identity of our species. The quote that stuck in my mind was "We've gotten away with it!", said by one scientist as he described his enthusiasm of the launch. I mean, here are these super smart people, planning ahead for decades one of the first and few real spacecrafts we humans have ever built, and what they feel is that they slipped it under the nose of their government and nation and species. I loved every one of the scientists that contributed to the show, their youthful enthusiasm so contrasting with their advanced ages, revealing the light in their hearts.The film was a bit too long, at two hours, and maybe it would have been more powerful as a mini-series instead. It goes through the excitement when it first reaches Jupiter, then Saturn, then the bitter sweet moment when Voyager 2 reaches Uranus at the same time that Challenger explodes and finally Neptune. Another quote was about how small color dots from the Earth telescopes turn into worlds when Voyager goes past the planets.I love all of these documentaries, which show who worked passionately to make things like these happen, to truly further humanity against all odds and against its mostly indifferent members, shows that really show the worlds around us and expand our horizons. If you love space, you should see this.
peter-hallinan-874-731934 I was privileged to see this amazing documentary as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival in Christchurch, NZ. If you are enraptured by astronomy, physics, drama, tragedy, philosophy of science, or just amazing stories, don't miss this documentary. And if you're not, still see it and be prepared to change your mind. The documentary traces the whole story of the two Voyager missions to the outer planets of the solar system (and now beyond), from its earliest planning stages through to lift off and then all the incredible and unexpected discoveries since. The audience clapped loudly at the end of the showing, and deservedly so. Three cheers for the romance of science!