This Space Shuttle Podcast Needs You!
The great thing about podcasts is they can go into amazing details, such as taking ten hours to explain the thirteen minutes it took the lunar lander to land on the moon. That would be the podcast ’13 Minutes To The Moon’ which I loved.
The less great thing about podcasts like these is they need to be paid for. Not everyone can get a multi-million dollar deal to talk to other people who have similar million-dollar deals, and neither can you assume that the sliver of advertising revenue a mega-corp will share with you can cover production costs.
Which is where Kickstarter comes in.
The team behind ’13 Minutes’ really want to talk about the Space Shuttle. To talk a lot about the Space Shuttle. Here’s series lead Kevin Fong:
…in tells the extraordinary, secret history of the Space Shuttle programme — 135 missions, 30 years and 500 million miles flown, bringing the same mix of meticulous archive research, raw first-hand testimony and elegant narration that he and the team brought to the multi-award winning 13 Minutes to the Moon.
This time the series is not affiliated with the BBC and we’re asking you to help us fund and co-create the series completely independently. We want to make the production a collaborative effort and engage directly with our audience.
A little bit more is needed to push the project over the line (or, failing that, to show enough support for other funding sources to be found). I doubt it will come as a surprise that I’m one of the Kickstarter backers.
Maybe you’ll join me?
In the standard low orbit of the Earth the Shuttle crew would circle the Earth in 90 minutes and experience 16 sunsets in every 24 hour period. The title encapsulates the power of space to inspire awe, wonder and the very best of human endeavour and collaboration — just as the Shuttle Programme did for 30 years.
