Feb 10
Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA
TicketsRobert Stone
Filmmaker
andGentry Lee
Chief Engineer For Planetary Exploration, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Starman— Are We Alone in the Universe?
Program Description
Legendary NASA engineer and best-selling science fiction author Gentry Lee and filmmaker Robert Stone expand on discoveries Lee has made over decades.
Film Synopsis
Legendary NASA robotics engineer Gentry Lee has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe?
Are we alone in the universe? For over half a century, legendary NASA engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has explored every aspect of this question in the realms of space science, robotic exploration and the human imagination. At age 82, he has come to a revelatory conclusion.
About the Speaker
Robert Stone is an Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary and a three-time Emmy nominee for Exceptional Merit in Documentary filmmaking, and has won dozens of awards for his work over the past 35 years. Among his notable films are Radio Bikini, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Oswald's Ghost, Earth Days, Pandora's Promise, and the epic 6-hour documentary series Chasing the Moon.
Gentry Lee serves as the Chief Engineer For Planetary Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. With a remarkable career spanning over fifty years, he has played a pivotal role in nearly all of America's interplanetary missions, starting with his essential contributions to the Viking mission to Mars in 1976, which marked the first successful landing on another planet. In collaboration with the late Carl Sagan, Lee co-developed and produced the acclaimed 1980 television series Cosmos. Additionally, he is a best-selling science fiction author, renowned for co-authoring the Rama series with Arthur C. Clarke, along with numerous other novels.