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Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Click here for transcript. (video link) For the first episode in “The Greatest Leap,” we focused on the Apollo 1 fire and NASA’s return to flight after that tragic accident. Without that turnaround, the United States might never have landed on […]
Video shot by Joshua Ballinger, edited and produced by Jing Niu and David Minick. Transcript will be available shortly. (video link) Around NASA and its contractors, the phrase “Return to Flight” carries special meaning. It’s used very seriously in very specific circumstances: a “Return to Flight” mission is a resumption of normal scheduled missions after […]
Our short series teaser. Click here for transcript. (video link) For a few brief years between 1968 and 1972, humans left the Earth and visited the Moon. The flights took the combined efforts of nearly half a million people working across the world and cost about $ 160 billion in inflation-adjusted 2015 dollars. The result […]
Chrissie Hynde even showed true rock ’n roll spirit when she egged on the crowd to defy venue staff and get up and out of their seats.. Their long parade of hits has been tempered by the tragic early deaths of two original members but the longevity of the band can simply be attributed to […]
Enlarge / “Thirteen, Houston—you are go for fun.” HOUSTON—“Ah, Thirteen, Houston,” I said into the mic as the alarms blared and the screens on the wall showed an image of a badly damaged Apollo spacecraft floating slowly away into the void. “Go ahead, Houston,” came the scratchy voice from the doomed command module. “Ah, Thirteen, […]
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
As expected, Baidu today announced partners for its Project Apollo autonomous driving platform. The most important names listed were the vehicle manufacturers: Chery, FAW Group, Changan Automobile, Daimler, Ford, and Great Wall Motors. Qi Lu, Baidu’s group president and COO, made the announcement in Beijing at the company’s AI developer conference Baidu Create. Baidu first […]
Harlem’s Apollo Theater is probably America’s most crucial venue for the sharing of black music, performance, and experience, a space from which some of the country’s best art and social commentary is disseminated. Now, the New York Times reports that the theater will be adding Ta-Nehisi Coates to the catalog of artists who’ve come through its doors. In April 2018, a multimedia […]
Following years of internecine power struggles and schisms within the band, and the recent death of original member and bass player Chris Squire, the beating heart and soul of Yes – Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman – are finally friends re-united onstage with Trevor Rabin, uber-guitarist from Yes’ 1980’s mega-stardom period, playing an imperious set […]
NASA It seems like the world has caught a case of moon fever. On February 27, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that two unnamed people are paying his rocket company, SpaceX, to send them on an auto-piloted trip around the moon in 2018. Later The Washington Post revealed that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his […]
