Around The World In 60 Mins

Plot

This film takes the viewer on a unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. When Yuri Gagarin was blasted into space he became the first human to get a proper look at where we live. The Earth is blue he exclaimed, how amazing! Suddenly our perspective on the world had changed forever. We thought we were going to explore the universe, yet the most extraordinary thing we discovered was our own home planet, the Earth. So what would you see during just one orbit of the earth?

Cast

David Morrissey

Self - Narrator (voice)

Piers Sellers

Self - NASA Astronaut

Rob Edwards

Self - Head of Science, Royal Observatory

Mark Maslin

Self - Department of Geography, UCL