A Youtube user thinks NASA is “the most fascinating, adventurous, epic institution ever devised by human beings”. We agree. That same guy thinks NASA has no idea how to promote itself. So he made this commercial for them. It’s beautiful.
Titled ‘The Frontier is Everywhere’, this fan-made video perfectly combines an eloquent Carl Sagan voiceover from The Pale Blue Dot with timely splicing of poignant images of Earth and outer space. In the end, going to space is as much about looking at ourselves and the current world around us as it is launching a shuttle.
NASA’s current budget cuts obviously make it a bit difficult to focus heavy resources on public relations and social media, but reconnecting the people with the wonder of space, like this video does, should be more important than it currently is. [The Frontier is Everywhere via Laughing Squid]
olearymo
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 8:46 PMWe miss you Carl Sagan!
Shane
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 8:39 AMNice, very nice. If going into space will unite us as a single people, bring and end to the poverty and misery we bring onto ourselves, I say, lets get a move on!
Jon
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 11:06 AMAwesome. Gave me shivers!
…but I couldn’t help but think he was talking about the Vulcans there at one point ;)
BJ
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 5:47 PMIf the objective of this video was to send people to sleep, then all I can say is objective achiev…….ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz