Experience The Journey Into Space in Trailer For AMONG THE STARS a Disney+ Docuseries
Disney+ has released a thrilling trailer for a new NASA, space exploration docu-series titled Among The Stars and it looks stunning. The six-part series is coming to Disney+ and it follows NASA astronaut Captain Chris Cassidy as he embarks on one last mission, and it features footage that is shot both on Earth and in space. The series uses "intimate footage, personal video diaries and livestream footage."
The series will follow "the teams' successes and failures over the course of two years" and it "provides behind-the-scenes access to the critically important NASA mission of repairing a $2 billion science experiment, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), which aims to reveal the origins of the universe. To repair the AMS, former Navy Seal Captain Cassidy and his team must undertake a series of complex spacewalks, but the story quickly becomes a tale about the broader team at NASA, their roles on this daring mission and the collective quest to succeed."
The series was filmed in collaboration with the various space agencies from around the world and will bring viewers into these respective places, including: NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the European Space Agency in Cologne, Germany, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency outside Tokyo, and the Russian Space Agency in Star City.
The series will also profile "Cassidy's partner astronaut, Luca Parmitano from the European Space Agency; Drew Morgan, a rookie NASA astronaut who gets the chance of a lifetime to repair the AMS; Emily Nelson, AMS flight director and the 10th female flight director at NASA; Heather Bergman, AMS spacewalk tools manager at NASA who leads a team dedicated to creating spacewalk tools; professor Samuel Ting, Nobel Prize winner for discovering the subatomic particle and AMS Inventor; and Ken Bollweg, AMS project manager who has worked hand-in-hand with professor Ting on the AMS experiment from its inception 25 years ago."
Among the Stars will debut all six episodes on October 6th only on Disney+.
