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Trying to remember the name of this sci fi series I am watching (manned voyage to Mars)

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Aridane · 23/09/2018 23:12

Can anyone help me identify this series which I have started watch and now cannot remember the name?!?

It is a 2018 (maybe 2017) US tv series about a manned mission to Mars. In the first episode the rocket crashes (a malfunction caused by a coin in the mechanism) and the plans to go to Mars are put on hold.

The woman responsible for the mission, I think, has an English accent.

Cannot find it on IMDB despite having read the reviews about it on IMDB

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Rememberallball · 23/09/2018 23:20

DH said could it be - Mars? Cast includes Jihae, Alberto Ammann and Clementine Poldatz.

Rememberallball · 23/09/2018 23:21

Is on Netflix and the ship is called Daedalus

cornflakegirl · 23/09/2018 23:27

Missions?

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cornflakegirl · 23/09/2018 23:30

Ah no, reread properly, Missions is French.

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Aridane · 24/09/2018 00:02

It doesn’t have the word ‘Mars’ in it.

It’s quite slow moving - eg giving evidence at congressional hearings about reasons for crash

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missnevermind · 24/09/2018 00:09

Not your one but this is very similar. I am now looking for the one you watched too.
www.imdb.com/title/tt4939064/

PawneeParksDept · 24/09/2018 00:10

Are you thinking of The Expanse?

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Aridane · 24/09/2018 00:48

miss - I started watching that one but found the part drama part faux documentary stype a bit grating!

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Aridane · 24/09/2018 00:50

Not The Expanse - much less action driven. More earth bound than space bound

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Aridane · 25/09/2018 05:25

Found it! It’s The First with NatashaMacelhone and Sean Penn. www.imdb.com/title/tt7412482/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 What has happened with the return key?!?

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missnevermind · 25/09/2018 17:30

Im glad you came back to let us know.
I have that ready now to start watching.
Thank you, needed a new one.

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Aridane · 25/09/2018 20:14

Miss - do you have any general recommendations for recent sci if series or films (assuming you to like this genre)?

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missnevermind · 26/09/2018 10:10

Altered carbon was good. But I did find it a bit heavy going.
I enjoyed Ascension, from a couple of years ago.
Defying Gravity is from 2009 but I rewatched it lately and it was as I remembered.
I have seen some really bad films in the last few months so I dont think I am the one to ask about that Grin

DianaPrincessOfThemyscira · 26/09/2018 10:19

I’m place marking to come back to give and receive some recommendations!

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Aridane · 29/09/2018 06:43

Imiss - I have seen Ascension and enjoyed it Grin - though some reviewers on IMDB hated it

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