The Farthest (2017)

indeq · 22-08-2017 1:35am #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znTdk_de_K8

It is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space - the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear generator that will beat for perhaps another decade before the lights on Voyager finally go out. But this little craft will travel on for millions of years, carrying a Golden Record bearing recordings and images of life on Earth. In all likelihood Voyager will outlive humanity. THE FARTHEST celebrates these magnificent machines, the men and women who built them and the vision that propelled them farther than anyone could ever have hoped.

Heard abit on the radio about this the other day, sounds good. Clip looks good.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/the-greatest-journey-voyagers-mission-is-coming-to-an-end-457302.html
http://variety.com/2017/film/festivals/voyager-mission-documentary-the-farthest-us-release-1202513475/

Will air on PBS Aug 23.

allinthehead · 22-08-2017 10:25am

Thanks for this. Great to see the Irish film board involved.

jfSDAS · 22-08-2017 4:06pm

Managed to catch the movie at the Dublin Film Festival and, more recently, in the IFI when Lawrence Krauss and former astronaut Dan Tani were on a post-screening panel. It's a fantastic paean to the Voyager mission which is emotional at times as you think of the heart-stopping moments for the spacecraft team and the amazing highs as each world visited turned out to be more extraordinary than anyone imagined. I believe RTE plan to show it later in the year also. Enjoy!

coylemj · 22-08-2017 5:04pm

It's still on in the IFI, saw it last week and highly recommended.

Did I snooze through this or am I correct in saying that 'The Farthest' gives no credit or mention to Gary Flandro, the engineer who in the 1960s calculated that an alignment of the outer planets in the 1970s would provide a once in a lifetime opportunity to launch a probe to do the 'grand tour'?

Remaining screenings this week in the IFI are as follows, check listings for possible screenings after this.....

Wed. Aug. 23rd 15:20
Thu. Aug. 24th 16:00

Edit: listed out to Thu. Aug. 31st on the IFI website ...

http://ifi.ie/film/the-farthest/

Knifey Spoony · 22-08-2017 8:51pm

Triskel in Cork are showing it Sunday the 27th until the following Wednesday:

http://triskelartscentre.ie/events/3505/the-farthest/

indeq · 26-08-2017 3:08am

Available now in all good record stores.

coylemj · 27-08-2017 5:00pm

It premiered on PBS in the US on Aug. 23rd and will be repeated on Sept. 13th. I'd expect it to show up on Netflix soon after that.

star gazer · 27-08-2017 6:46pm

It had a nice flow to it, capturing that sense of wonder and adventure in discovering more about our solar system and about our place in the universe. Are we alone or not? What do you say when you meet another space faring species for the first time. The better perspective of our own planet when we send something further away. The two are a light into the universe. It is good to see the Irish invovlement in making this happen and contributing something to a new generation who didn't witness those times.

indeq · 30-08-2017 12:06am

RTE1 Tuesday 5th at 22.15

Ghost Train · 05-09-2017 10:22pm

Just started now

ps200306 · 06-09-2017 1:03am

Very nicely made. Though what was Lawrence Krauss doing on it? AFAIK he was nothing to do with the mission, and isn't even a space scientist, but a theoretical cosmologist. Parts of his interview wander off into stuff that's nothing to do with the rest of the film.

lawred2 · 04-01-2019 11:49am

coylemj wrote: »

It premiered on PBS in the US on Aug. 23rd and will be repeated on Sept. 13th. I'd expect it to show up on Netflix soon after that.

is it on netflix?

The Farthest (2017)

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