Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television drama series, first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV. Set in the year 2052 (with flashbacks to five years earlier in the story's continuity), the series follows eight astronauts—four women and four men—from five countries on a six-year space mission through the Solar System, during which they are monitored from earth via a realtime, faster than light communication system.[2] The series was pitched to networks as "Grey's Anatomy in space"