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Abramorama | Release Date: August 11, 2017
Summary: The Farthest tells the captivating tales of the people and events behind one of humanity’s greatest achievements in exploration: NASA’s Voyager mission, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this August. The twin spacecraft—each with less computing power than a cell phone—used slingshot trajectories to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They sent back unprecedented images and data that revolutionized our understanding of the spectacular outer planets and their many peculiar moons. Still going strong four decades after launch, each spacecraft carries an iconic golden record with greetings, music and images from Earth—a gift for any aliens that might one day find it. Voyager 1, which left our solar system and ushered humanity into the interstellar age in 2012, is the farthest-flung object humans have ever created. A billion years from now, when our sun has flamed out and burned Earth to a cinder, the Voyagers and their golden records will still be sailing on—perhaps the only remaining evidence that humanity ever existed. [Abramorama]
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Runtime: 121 min
Rating: Not Rated
Official Site: http://abramorama.com/films/the-farthest/
Production: Crossing the Line Productions
Genres: History, Documentary
Country: IE
Language: English
Home Release Date: Oct 3, 2017
Director Credit
Emer Reynolds Director
Writer Credit
Emer Reynolds Writer
Principal Cast Credit
Carolyn Porco Herself
Charley Kohlhase Himself
Edward Stone Himself
Fran Bagenal Herself
Frank Drake Himself
John Casani Himself
Larry Soderblom Himself
Lawrence Krauss Himself
Nick Sagan Himself
Timothy Ferris Himself
Cast Credit
Frank Locatell Himself
Heidi Hammel Herself
James F. Bell Himself
Jon Lomberg Himself
Suzanne Dodd Herself
Producer Credit
Clare Stronge Producer
Dennis Liu Executive Producer
John Murray Producer
John Rubin Executive Producer
Keith Potter Executive Producer
Sean B. Carroll Executive Producer
Zlata Filipovic Line Producer