TORONTO – In celebration of a lifetime of great achievements, Smithsonian Channel Canada is premiering an hour-long special exploring Stephen Hawking’s controversial position that the survival of the species depends on inhabiting another planet within the next 100 years.
Leaving Earth: Or How to Colonize a Planet will air on Sunday, March 25 at 8:00 PM ET/PT, day and date
with Smithsonian Channel in the U.S.
The program visits an exo-planet observatory in the heart of the Atacama Desert, reveals a plasma-powered rocket engine that could revolutionize space travel, explores the giant greenhouses of Biosphere 2 and showcases NASA’s own “robot army”. Hawking, top scientists, technologists and engineers around the globe investigate whether humans really do have what it takes to colonize another planet.
Owned by Blue Ant Media, Smithsonian Channel Canada offers programming from genres such as air and space, science and nature, pop culture and history, drawn from the world’s leading cultural institution.
