Updated: May 08, 2024

Today the first of what may be as many as ten million families per year is setting out on it's epic voyage into man's newest frontier for colonization...deep space. Reaching out into other worlds from our desperately overcrowded planet, a series of deep thrust telescopic probes have conclusively established a planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri as the only one within range of our technology able to furnish ideal conditions for human existence.

The Robinson family was selected from more than two million volunteers for it's unique balance of scientific achievement, emotional stability and pioneer resoucefulness. They will spend the five and a half years of their voyage "frozen" into a state of suspended animation which will terminate automatically as the space craft enters the atmosphere of the new planet.