Don't miss the world premiere of Inside the Space Station on Discovery Channel, a Watch With the World event, on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. ET/PT.
The show will also air:
Sunday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m. ET/PT
Monday, Dec. 18, at 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. ET/PT
Saturday, Dec. 23, at 5 p.m. ET/PT
About the Show:
Go Inside the Space Station and meet the people who have banded together, despite cultural differences, to take on a project that no one nation could accomplish alone. Relive the incredible technological and cultural obstacles that astronauts and scientists from around the globe have had to overcome. And see images of the completed International Space Station through the use of computer-generated graphics and feature-film techniques.
The one-hour premiere on Dec. 10 will air in 150 countries in 32 languages on the same night.
Inside the Space Station shows what the finished station will look like and how astronauts will build this ambitious project. Meet more than a half-dozen astronauts, as well as the engineers who create such wonders as spacesuits that shield astronauts from blistering and freezing temperature extremes; robotic hands that let astronauts wearing virtual-reality gloves perform delicate operations outside the safety of the station; and the experimental X38 Crew Return Vehicle, a "lifeboat" for space shown in a dramatic flight test.
Astronauts describe the challenges of living in zero gravity, along with the soul-stirring satisfactions (and very real risks) of working in space. The show also reveals the exhaustive training ISS astronauts must undergo, including a Canadian wilderness "boot camp" that tests teamwork along with emotional and physical stamina, and extensive training in a 6.4-million-gallon neutral buoyancy lab that simulates weightlessness and allows astronauts to rehearse their precision-choreographed construction routines.
