Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of space, a huge fan of Apollo and a MASSIVE fan of Apollo on the biggest screen in the world. In other words, it was a complete joy getting to explain the incredible achievements that made the Moon Landing possible, as well as the film itself Apollo, to attendees at the premiere screening at IMAX Melbourne. Afterwards I was able to try and answer a few of the hundreds of attendees questions in the Q&A that really kept me on my toes..!
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One of the coolest parts of my job is that I can take film-crews around the world and showcase the incredible science and technology that is out there, but seeing the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre just tops everything. My huge thanks to ABC Catalyst for letting me reveal the change space race that means the return to the moon is a competition between startups not superpowers. This is a topic I raved about in the Sydney Morning Herald, and there was also a really nice review of the TV episode in The Australian. You can watch the episode online on ABC iView.
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I spoke about the amazing Apollo Archival Project has put thousands of Apollo era photos on flickr and the discovery that Pluto has blue skies, something we take for granted on Earth but it's actually really unusual in our solar system!
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