Smithsonian Channel Canada to air new Stephen Hawking special Sunday

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 datewith 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,...