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BLAST!
2008 · Film · documentary · 78 min
Directed by Paul Devlin
With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to discover thousands of early galaxies takes them from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Revealing frustrations, inevitable failures and ultimate triumph, BLAST puts a human face on the quest to answer our most basic question - How did we get here?
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I’d recommend the documentary BLAST! (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1190065/) for a look at the scientific side of stratospheric ballooning, which personally would put me off wanting to ride in one.