Anamaria Marinca previously played an astronaut traveling to a planet for the first time in Europa Report (2013), wherein a journey to Europa, the moon that orbits Jupiter, is depicted.
Is available to watch streaming on Hulu, a week before the cable-TV broadcast on NatGeo channel. Hulu has a "Before Mars" episode which starts the story to the tv series "Mars". The series is available on NatGeo channel and Netflix.
Elon Musk's image is shown during the introduction. Elon publicly stated his goal of getting a person to Mars.
Daedalus was the name of the orbiter in 'Space Cowboys'.