“The Expanse” area TV sequence could also be over, nevertheless it nonetheless lives on as a fandom amongst astronauts as a online game prequel launched on Thursday (July 27).
Worldwide Area Station astronaut Andreas Mogensen’s love of the sequence got here to mild when “The Expanse” was canceled after Season 3 on its first community, Syfy. The Danish citizen wrote a tweet in Could 2018, lamenting “Say it ain’t so!” of the sequence’ obvious demise.
Mogensen advised Area.com he discovered himself, unawares, becoming a member of a rising Twitter marketing campaign to maintain the sequence going because the showrunners shopped their idea to different patrons — which clearly labored as Season 4 aired in 2019 on Amazon Prime.
“I had simply began watching ‘The Expanse’ and completely liked it, particularly the eye to element, particularly relating to human physiology,” Mogensen, a European Area Company astronaut, advised Area.com on Tuesday (July 25) throughout a press convention for his subsequent mission, SpaceX Crew-7.
Crew-7 contains Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Konstantin Borisov of Russia’s area company, Roscosmos. The quartet will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart at 6:56 a.m. EDT (1056 GMT) no sooner than Aug. 17. You’ll be able to watch the occasions stay at Area.com, through NASA Tv.
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“The Expanse” ran on Syfy for its first three seasons after which Amazon Prime for its ultimate three. It’s based mostly on a sequence of novels beneath the pen title James S.A. Corey (a joint effort of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). The novels and sequence alike comply with the far way forward for humanity, when settlements are everywhere in the photo voltaic system and coming into battle with one another.
Whereas the sequence completed for good in January 2022, a continuation began up Thursday in online game format.”The Expanse: A Telltale Collection” by Telltale Video games will launch 5 prequel episodes of the sequence between July and September for PlayStation 4/5, Xbox X/S/One and Microsoft Home windows.
Mogensen will likely be in area whereas the online game is launched, and did not immediately reply a Area.com query about whether or not he plans to do a rewatch of the sequence throughout his restricted spare time. However he did reward the accuracy of the franchise.
“That they had taken account of how our human our bodies could be affected by being born and rising up within the asteroid belt,” he stated. “I believed that was actually fascinating. It was one of many first science fiction sequence that I knew that had gone into that element.”
Mogensen wasn’t the one astronaut asking for “The Expanse” to maintain going. NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio tweeted in 2018 throughout the save the sequence marketing campaign throughout a break from supporting a cargo mission with Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft. (By coincidence, Mastracchio at this time works for Northrop Grumman.)
“It is an inspiring present and enjoyable to look at. Test it out,” Mastracchio tweeted.
Scientists engaged on NASA missions have additionally supported “The Expanse” through the years. For instance: Robert Damage, an astronomer who does visualizations for NASA on the California Institute of Know-how (Caltech), did a area trivia contest with present solid members in 2019.
A 2017 public panel in regards to the science of “The Expanse” featured a number of real-life scientists with company connections, together with Jessie Christiansen, an astronomer on the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech, and Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at SETI Institute (which frequently works with NASA.)
If you wish to discover out extra about The Expanse sport, take a look at our interview with actor Cara Gee the place she mentioned reprising her function for the sport.
