The director Julien Lacombe told the Swiss newspaper 20 Minutes that he was inspired by his love for science fiction, particularly Isaac Asimov's writing, but also for genre cinema including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar and Alien. On Mars, the astronauts do not find the Americans but a Russian, Vladimir Komarov, who died aboard the Soyuz 1 spacecraft in 1967. The European mission decides to investigate. The only sign of life from the American mission is an alarming video message telling them not to land as it was 'too dangerous'. They have been overtaken by a US mission with a faster vessel, jointly funded by NASA and a multi-national computer company. After ten months travelling through space, and within a few hours of landing, the astronauts learn from William Meyer that they will not be the first astronauts to land on Mars. Jeanne Renoir, the crew psychologist, monitors the mental health of the crew. The crew is made up of the best astronauts and European scientists, including French, Italians and Germans. In the near future, the first crewed space mission to Mars, Ulysses 1, is a European mission funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and William Meyer, a billionaire Swiss philanthropist. Series 3 consisted of ten episodes and was launched in 2021. Series 2 of Missions was scheduled to start filming in 2018, co-produced by Empreinte Digitale and by Shudder's parent company, AMC Networks. The first series is a mixture of science fiction, adventure and mysticism and does not draw to a self-contained conclusion. It was first broadcast in June 2017 on the French pay-TV channel OCS, released on the Shudder streaming service in September 2017, and broadcast free-to-air on Britain's BBC Four in May 2018.The first series has ten 26-minute episodes that were as short as 20 minutes when aired by the BBC without intervening adverts. Missions was created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme and and produced by Empreinte Digitale of Paris. Set in the near future, it depicts a mission to the planet Mars. Missions in French pronounced as /mi.sjɔ̃/ is a French science-fiction television series first broadcast in 2017.
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