{"id":14372,"date":"2017-05-15T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14372"},"modified":"2017-05-15T02:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T06:29:55","slug":"fight-for-space-documentary-film-to-be-released-on-may-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14372","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fight for Space&#8221; documentary film to be released on May 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary\u00a0will be released on May 19th to theaters and on demand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightforspace.com\/about-us\/\">about the decades long hiatus in human spaceflight<\/a> beyond low earth orbit\u00a0:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightforspace.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fight For Space \u2013 Where is your space program?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cFIGHT FOR SPACE\u201d is a documentary film that asks, why haven\u2019t we gone back to the Moon, or sent humans to Mars? Weren\u2019t we supposed to be there in the 80s? What lead to the decline\u00a0of NASA\u2019s budget and why is it stuck in low earth orbit?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Filmed over the course of 4 years, Fight for Space is the product of thousands of Kickstarter supporters who believed that the exploration of space is worth fighting for. Over 60 interviews were conducted with astronauts, politicians, educators, historians, scientists, former NASA officials, commercial space entrepreneurs, and many other experts in the space community. It is a film like no other that tackles issues no other documentary has touched, featuring newly restored 35mm and 16mm footage from the National Archives NASA collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A5PKjD4006E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonarddavid.com\/documentary-film-asks-where-is-your-space-program\/\">Documentary Film Asks: Where Is Your Space Program? &#8211; Leonard David<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightforspace.com\/about-us\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14374\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=14374\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FFSPoster600px1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"599,888\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FFSPoster600px[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FFSPoster600px1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-14374\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FFSPoster600px1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FFSPoster600px1.jpg 599w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/FFSPoster600px1-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary\u00a0will be released on May 19th to theaters and on demand about the decades long hiatus in human spaceflight beyond low earth orbit\u00a0:\u00a0Fight For Space \u2013 Where is your space program? \u00a0 \u201cFIGHT FOR SPACE\u201d is a documentary film that asks, why haven\u2019t we gone back to the Moon, or sent humans to Mars? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Fight for Space&#8221; documentary film to be released on May 19th<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-films-and-videos","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3JO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9649,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9649","url_meta":{"origin":14372,"position":0},"title":"Kickstarter: &#8220;Fight for Space&#8221; documentary","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Fight For Space\u00a0is a documentary about human space exploration and space policy and the\u00a0looking for money to complete the film and release it for distribution\u00a0: \u00a0Fight for Space: NASA & Human Spaceflight (Finishing Funds) by Paul Hildebrandt \u2014 Kickstarter In August of 2012, we raised $100k here on Kickstarter. 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