As part of its 35th anniversary celebrations, the Margaret Mead Film Festival at New York's American Museum of Natural History will screen Space Tourists on Friday, November 11, at 8pm.
The film, directed by Academy Award-nominee Christian Frei, will then move from the silver screen to the TV screen, airing on Documentary Channel on Sunday, November 13, at 8pm.
For Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American billionaire raised during the glory days of American and Soviet space exploration, no price is too high when it comes to travelling to the International Space Station.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formerly secret installations are now open to the public with enough money to fund their space travel fantasies.
In 2006, Ansari paid $20million for her journey. While she lives out her dream high above the Earth, photographer Jonas Bendiksen takes a ground tour of remote Kazakhstan where the shuttle launches are tracked by scrap metal...
The film, directed by Academy Award-nominee Christian Frei, will then move from the silver screen to the TV screen, airing on Documentary Channel on Sunday, November 13, at 8pm.
For Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American billionaire raised during the glory days of American and Soviet space exploration, no price is too high when it comes to travelling to the International Space Station.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formerly secret installations are now open to the public with enough money to fund their space travel fantasies.
In 2006, Ansari paid $20million for her journey. While she lives out her dream high above the Earth, photographer Jonas Bendiksen takes a ground tour of remote Kazakhstan where the shuttle launches are tracked by scrap metal...
- 10/14/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
If there is one thing I can accuse of acclaimed director Christian Frei (War Photographer), it is that he somehow made a boring documentary about space exploration. This is not an insult to him or his film, it is kind of the raison d'etre, because humanity has somehow taken the majesty and the glory of the Soviet and American Space Race, and turned it into a mundane commodity for the rich and surprisingly the poor as well. From Neil Armstrong's famous words from the moon, to a Pizza Hut logo on one of the space shuttle rocket boosters, we've come a long way from that starry eyed ideals of the final frontier. And the beleaguered Russian space program, gutted at the collapse of the Soviet Union more than a decade ago, relies on selling the 'third seat' on its Soyuz rockets to various rich software engineers or the founder...
- 4/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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