Cosmos
Season 2, Episode 8: The Sacrifice of Cassini
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The mysterious untold story of the scientist who figured out how to go the Moon while fighting for his life in a WWI trench. He wrote a letter to fifty years in the future. It made the Apollo Mission possible. And the saga of the twenty-year long odyssey of a robotic explorer ordered to commit suicide on another world.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Ladder to the Stars
Episode 2
The Fleeting Grace of the Habitable Zone
Episode 3
Lost City of Life
Episode 4
Vavilov
Episode 5
The Cosmic Connectome
Episode 6
The Man of a Trillion Worlds
Episode 7
The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth
Episode 8
The Sacrifice of Cassini
Episode 9
Magic Without Lies
Episode 10
A Tale of Two Atoms
Episode 11
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Episode 12
Coming of Age In The Anthropocene
Episode 13
Seven Wonders of The New World