Defying Gravity Episode Pilot: Natural Selection

Eight astronauts---four men and four women---prepare for a six-year journey aboard the Antares in the premiere of a series that focuses on the crew's current mission to Venus and the threads that connected their lives during the training process that preceded it. Maddux Donner: Ron Livingston. Zoe Barnes: Laura Harris. Ted Shaw: Malik Yoba.

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2-hour series premiere event Sunday August 2nd 9/8c
Sundays 10/9c starting August 9th

Four women and four men hurtle through space with nothing to do for six years and eight billion miles, except maybe solve a powerful and awesome mystery. Maybe, just maybe, some of them will even hook up. How cool is that?

Defying Gravity is a sexy, provocative thriller set in the very near future against the backdrop of our solar system, in which the eight astronauts from five countries undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission on the spaceship Antares.

They can't run from karma, however, as their past actions reveal intimate and interconnected relationships that have a strange effect on the present. As the astronauts travel towards Venus, we travel into their past with flashbacks to earlier years from the grueling selection and training process. What could have happened?

Maybe there is something to this fate thing after all.