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Es geht um eine Chirurgin, die einen Kosmonauten operieren muss, der zu krank ist, um sofort zur Erde zurückzukehren.

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.

A monstrous, high-tech aircraft in Ukraine is left abandoned; scenic ruins on Scotland Loch Ewe mask a hostile past; ghostly wartime facilities with slides in rural Indiana house secrets; and towers in Greece have violent, bloody ties to The Maniots, descendants of Spartans.

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.