Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) on Netflix
NR201050mAdventureAnimationSci-Fi
Dave, a young photon, is forced out of the Sun to reach the Cassini spacecraft. The Void's forces want it destroyed, and Dave does not know where it is.
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In the atomic world, the Core sends his children, the photons, out from every star to bring light and knowledge to the universe. The Void, who existed before the Big Bang, hates the universe and commands an army of anti-matter against him, and a battle rages at the edge of the solar system. In the Hall of Destiny, Dave, a young photon overdue for his journey to the surface, is afraid to leave. The Ranger, a neutrino scout, breaks through the fighting to the Sun with a message for the Cassini Space Core Commander; hunted by Gell-Mann ghosts, she hands the scroll to Dave and asks him to deliver it. Dave sails out of the Sun, meets Jammer, a proton who rides the solar winds, and sets off across the solar system.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
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- Quantum Quest is the only film that features Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, who lends his voice to Dr. Jack Morrow, one of the film's four education ambassadors.
- Quantum Quest was Casey Kasem's final film before his death in June 2014, as a note on the film states.
- Quantum Quest was the first project NASA initiated with an independent filmmaker, to create an animated fiction film based on its ongoing missions, science and discovery.
- Production could not begin until the $3.5 billion Cassini-Huygens reached Saturn and sent back its discoveries; NASA's release of final images and radar data in 2008 let the film proceed.
- The original voice cast, Christian Slater, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michael York and James Earl Jones, was replaced in 2008, after a new script reflected fresh Cassini-Huygens discoveries.
- Composer Shawn K. Clement recorded his score with an 80-piece ensemble of the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra and wove sounds and space noise provided by NASA into the music.
