Episode
Defying Gravity: Pilot
Overview
Eight Astronauts-four men and four women-prepare for a six year journey aboard the Antares.
Details
- Series
- Defying Gravity
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2009-08-02
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Pilot is Episode 1 in Season 1 of Defying Gravity. It aired on 2009-08-02. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: Threshold
Personal and professional relationships get more intense on Earth and aboard the Antares. In the meantime, the Antares' crew undergoes cellular and psychological transformations which is caused by the unseen power behind the mission.
Episode 4: H2IK
The Antares crew loses control over power, heat and gravity after a series of system failures and has to face its first major crisis.
Episode 5: Rubicon
The Antares crosses a point of no return and turning back to Earth is no longer an option. In the meantime, each of the crew members has to cope with a personal point of no return.
Episode 6: Bacon
While getting closer to Venus, some crew members are confronted with memories of past actions and struggle with guilt. When one of them gets into a life-threatening situation, the team unites to save her.
Episode 7: Fear
Hallucinations put crew members' lives in danger just as they are about to start a promotional event.
Episode 8: Love, Honor, Obey
An impending solar flare puts the crew in danger; the strange force in Pod 4 sends out an irresistible siren call.
Episode 9: Eve Ate the Apple
The crew of the Antares learns about Pod 4 and the real reason for their mission to Venus.
Episode 10: Deja Vu
It's election day but the crew aboard the Antares is still processing the news about their real mission on Venus.
Episode 11: Solitary
The Antares crew has to face the isolation and loneliness of space during the final hours before the Venus landing.
Episode 12: Venus
The day of the landing on Venus has come. The day that will change their lives eventually.