Cosmic Journeys — Season 1, Episode 12: Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight

Episode synopsis

Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to our Sun and the most likely destination for our first journey beyond the solar system.

About Cosmic Journeys

Cutting-edge stories about the origins of the universe, black holes, exploding stars, the search for ET life, and the nature of the planets. How did the universe begin? Where will it end? Are there other worlds like Earth?

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Birth of the Moon
• E2Attack of the Sun
• E3Super Hurricanes
• E4Saturn's Mysterious Moons
• E5The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
• E6How Large Is the Universe?
• E7When Will Time End
• E8The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
• E9Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
• E10Mars: Earth That Never Was
• E11The Search for Earth-like Planets
• E13Venus: Death of a Planet