Live from Space Season

In what promises to be some of this year’s most breathtaking television, Channel 4 invites viewers to join them on an incredible 90-minute journey around the world as part of its groundbreaking Live from Space season airing this March. Featuring an exciting line-up of programmes that have each been made in collaboration with NASA, Live from Space will culminate with a major interactive television event centred around a live two-and-a-half-hour broadcast from the International Space Station (ISS) and Mission Control in Houston, as the ISS completes an entire orbit of the Earth.

Presented by Dermot O’Leary, with contributors including Professor Stephen Hawking and British astronaut Tim Peake on the live show, Live from Space has been 20 months in the making and takes live event television to a new dimension. Travelling at speeds of nearly 300 miles a minute or 17,500 miles per hour, the ISS makes a complete orbit of the Earth every 90 minutes taking in a sunset and sunrise. In the live two-and-a-half-hour special, Live from Space: Lap of the Planet, viewers will be taken around the world and will experience stunning visuals shot from 250 miles above the Earth.

In the same week leading up to the main event, Channel 4 will air two fascinating, hour-long documentaries, Astronauts: Living in Space and Astronauts: Houston We Have a Problem. These shows reveal the truth of daily life on the space station, as well as showcasing the cutting-edge science that takes place there. Viewers will discover what it’s like for the astronauts who live and work onboard the ISS and the challenges they face.