Netflix provided Nasa, the American space agency, access to the pilot episode, which was transmitted to the International Space Station for the astronauts on board to watch.

Thirty years in the future, space colonisation has become a reality, and the Robinson family is among those selected to make new lives for themselves beyond Earth.

But when the new colonists are abruptly torn off course en route to their new home, they must forge new alliances and work together to survive in a dangerous alien environment, light-years from their original destination.

John Robinson, the expedition commander (played by Toby Stephens), and his wife Maureen (Molly Parker), a fearless aerospace engineer, decide to take the family into space. Their children are Judy (Taylor Russell), Penny (Mina Sundwall) and Will (Maxwell Jenkins).

Stranded along with the Robinsons are two outsiders who find themselves thrown together by circumstance and share a knack for deception.

The unsettlingly charismatic Dr Smith (Parker Posey) is a master manipulator with an inscrutable end game. And the roguish but inadvertently charming Don West (Ignacio Serricchio) is a highly skilled blue-collar contractor who had no intention of joining the colony, let alone crash-land on a lost planet.