Trivia / Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets

• Fake Nationality : Yvan Gregoriev is played by Rad Lazar, a Yugoslav-born actor. His Russian is pretty authentic though, so it doesn't come through as Lzherusskie.
• Science Marches On: Being a miniseries from 2004, this kind of program is obviously particularly vulnerable to being rendered obsolete by later scientific developments:
  • The fate of the robot probe dropped on Titan was deliberately left ambiguous, because the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was due to land on that moon only three months after the programme's broadcast date.
  • Pluto is referred to as the outermost planet in the Solar System. In 2005, Eris (a larger "tenth planet" even further out) was discovered. Subsequently the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formalised the definition of a planet in 2006, and reclassified Pluto, Eris and Ceres as dwarf planets. And the statement that Pluto has never been visited became outdated with the success of the New Horizons mission.

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