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Rocket Girls (and Guys)
There once was a time not long ago and yet still for the forseable future when space travel wasn't easy. No warp drives. No hyperspace bypasses. No artifical gravity. No ship's bridges that looked like hotel lobbies. It was hard radiation and explosive decompression. It was bulky space suits and paper thin hulls. It was cold and dark and a long way from home.
This year's video program is dedicated to astronauts with the right stuff, pushing the envelope on the edge of what is known.
| Friday | |
| 4:00pm | 
"Rocket Girls" Episodes 1-3 (2007)The Solomon Islands Space Association is trying to break into the manned space market. Unfortunately, their newer rocket design is a failure and their older model lacks the thrust to lift their astronaut unless he looses 40 kilos. Enter high school student Yukari Morita. |
| 5:30pm | 
"Robinson Crusoe on Mars" (1964)Commander Kit Draper and Colonel Dan McReady are orbiting Mars in an exploratory surveyor. A malfunction forces them to eject with only Draper and a monkey named Mona surviving. Draper must learn to survive in this hostile environment fighting thirst, hunger and even hostile aliens if he expects to see home again. |
| 7:30pm | 
"Capricorn One" (1978)A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret. |
| 9:30pm | 
"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968)Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest. Despite initially receiving mixed reviews, it is today recognized by many critics and audiences as one of the greatest films ever made. |
| Saturday | |
| 10:00am | 
"Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise" (1987)A fledgling space program strugles to launch the firt man into space under the literal shadow of impending war. |
| 12:00pm | 
"The Mouse on the Moon" (1963)The people of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, a microstate, enter the space race using wine as a propellant. |
| 4:00pm | 
"Rocket Girls" Episodes 4-6 (2007)Events lead up to Yukari Morita's first mission where things go horribly wrong. |
| 3:00pm | 
"Conquest of Space" (1955)A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars, but the captain's religious beliefs may get in the way. |
| 4:30pm | 
"Pioneer One" Episode 1 (2010)An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world. |
| 5:00pm | 
"Planetes" Episode 1-5 (2003)The job of the Space Debris Section is to collect debris from orbit to keep it from damaging operating spacecraft and satellites. Ai Tanabe has just joined the crew. |
| 7:00pm | 
"2010" (1984)Nine years ago, the Discovery One's mission to Jupiter mysteriously failed. Now, a joint American-Soviet mission will find out what happened. |
| 9:00pm | 
"Moon" (2009)Astronaut Sam Bell is nearing the end of his three-year stint on the Moon mining helium-3 when he suffers a serious injury that changes everything. |
| 10:30pm | 
"Solaris" (2002)A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet. |
| Sunday | |
| 10:00am | 
"Marooned" (1969)Three American astronauts trapped in orbit when their retros fail. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out? |
| 12:300pm | 
"Rocket Girls" Episodes 10-12 (2007)Teen Astronauts Yukari Morita and Akane Miura risk everything to save a NASA mission to Pluto. |
| 2:00pm | 
"Mission to Mars" (2000)When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors. |
