Space Cadets
A brand new ten-day series that aired Wed 7th December, 9.00pm every night on Channel 4.

Zeppotron made TV history in December 2005 by visiting the final frontier - blasting a lucky team of starry-eyed applicants into space. The hand-picked group underwent intensive training in Russia before being flown 100 kilometres up into Near Space. Here, they spent five days orbiting the Earth, conducting experiments and quite literally watching the world go by...

Unbeknown to them, they weren't in space at all...

They weren't even in Russia. They were actually in a disused military base at a secret location somewhere in the UK, as Johnny Vaughn presents Space Cadets... possibly the most audacious, complicated and ambitious practical joke in television history.

Over ten consecutive nights, Channel 4 and E4 followed this group of adventure-seeking applicants, from the rigorous selection process, exhaustive training programme to the mission itself, in a TV event that was out-of-this-world... and yet nothing of the sort.

But as things got stranger and stranger, did the space cadets cotton on that not everything is as it should be? Did things even get that far, or did they quickly figure out that the Space Tourism Agency of Russia is a little closer to the local ASDA than they'd been led to believe?

Space Cadets - The Satellite Show with Alex Zane went out at 10pm every night on E4.

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