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Follows a female surgeon who has to perform an operation on a cosmonaut too ill to return to Earth immediately.

Thomas Pesquet spent 196 days in orbit around Earth. A daily routine filled with a multitude of scientific experiments intended to prepare for future missions farther afield. The French astronaut dreams of one day setting foot on Mars (2040 is the target), but innumerable scientific problems remain to be solved.

Besides living, humanity also throughly transforms the planet for its ever increasing transport needs. In a few decades, China overtook even the US in building land roads, including bridges, tunnels etcetera. Shipping containers allowed multiplying far export manifold, m-turning the world into a single commercial market. Air transport shrunk distances for personnel travel, even space is becoming a 'regular' transport option.

An investigation into resort cover-ups; a Canadian astronaut prepares to go to the International Space Station.