Moon Shot - Ep. 1 - Astrobotic - Pittsburgh, USA

2016 • 7 хвілін

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Legendary roboticist Red Whittaker is a professor who splits his time between teaching future engineers at Carnegie Mellon and owning/operating a working cattle farm in rural Pennsylvania. With a crack team of former students, he co-founded Astrobotic because he believes robots are the best solution for exploring remote, harsh environments -- from nuclear disaster zones to the moon.

Episode One of Moon Shot, a documentary from Academy Award®-nominated director Orlando von Einsiedel, Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, Bad Robot, Epic Digital Google and XPRIZE (http://lunar.xprize.org). The Google Lunar XPRIZE is the largest prize competition of all time with a reward of $30 million and aims to incentivize entrepreneurs to create a new era of affordable access to the Moon and beyond, while inspiring the next generation of scientists, engineers, and explorers.

This character-driven, emotional, awe-inspiring series of 9 short films will follow a selection of the teams currently racing to complete their missions. It will explore the lives of their charismatic, quirky members, the sacrifices they have made to get to where they are today, and crucially, what drives them on this incredible journey.

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Invoked something within me. A need to contribute, or a need to be involved in a positive aspect of the future. An inspiring man. His obvious love for life shames me, but in a good way. To see the contrasting loves of his life: farming the land, and advanced robotics gives some idea to his depth. His open respect for his students, and the apparent sense of wonder he still has after 67 years of life, his never ending ambition and his striving to cram as much living into every moment is something we can all take a lesson from. A beautiful short piece, with more substance than most feature length productions these days.

I was very curious to know how this Documentary was to be filmed, but the first episode already made a huge impact on me. The Professor is wise, has a vision and has contributed to the momentum of this wonderful journey "MOON SHOT". It kind of strengthened my "WHY" for the passion of Robotics and has given me a lot of hope. I look forward to the rest of this documentary. Thank you Google

My love for astronomy is the same as how you love astrorobotics, and i feel amaze that even you're old you continue to do what you love, and on my self, i'm still too young to do things that i love, like observing the universe with big telescope or something. Thank you very much for inspiring me and the others, i'll continue to dream like what you've done until the last breath i may walk in this path. To God Be The Glory