Starman

Robert Stone United States 2025 85 min.

Are we alone in the universe? For more than half a century, NASA engineer and science fiction bestselling author Gentry Lee has explored every aspect of this question in the fields of space science and human imagination. At the age of 82, he shares his final conclusion on this fascinating issue with very infectious enthusiasm.

Oscar-nominated director Robert Stone puts a particularly enthusiastic space explorer at the centre of his recent documentary. Gentry Lee was scientific director back in the 1970s during the first successful NASA mission to Mars. In the decades that followed, he collaborated on a variety of important space programmes such as Galileo, Stardust and Deep Impact, to the more recent Mars surveys with the Mars Exploration Rover and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But even aside from his scientific career, Lee remained captivated by the universe. He collaborated on television series about space and co-wrote the successful science fiction books around the Rama universe. This inspiring ‘starman’ takes you through his fascination with the universe in all its aspects.

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