By Gregory Crofton If you know documentaries, surely you’ve seen director Chris Smith’s classic “American Movie” (1999), about a fledgling director and his best friend living in Wisconsin working to finish a short horror film called “Coven.” More than 20…
Rocketland: A Hub for Dorks
SpaceX’s Starbase project has inspired fans from around the country to move to a small town in Texas just to live close to the facility. In April 2022, the Verge went down to Brownsville, Texas to meet some of Elon…
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Describes his Work for Moon Mission
While Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were setting foot on the moon’s surface, Michael Collins was piloting the command module of Apollo 11, which got them all home. In a special edition of HARDtalk, Stephen Sackur spoke to Michael Collins…
Three Americans Rocket to Moon in Nail-Biter ‘APOLLO 11’
Contains Previously Unseen NASA Archival Footage By Gregory Crofton Archival color film of spectators taking swigs from old pull-tab Cokes and Busch beers while waiting on the launch of Apollo 11 is what made this film for work me. Of…
Historic Landing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX Entrepreneur Elon Musk (Tesla, Solar City, Paypal) successfully lands a rocket, the Falcon 9, after it delivered its payload of 12 satellites into orbit.