Brief History of Perseverance
Music Video for NASA Project Mars Competition
All content used is Public Domain / CC / NASA Archives
This is a piece that I wrote and a short video that I cut to accompany it for the 2018 NASA Project Mars contest.
Project Mars is focusing on the future exploration missions that will rely on the new Orion spacecraft that is currently going through the final testing stages and preparing for manned flights. I tried — mostly by the means of music but also using the combination of archive and new videos and simulations — to superimpose such seemingly incomparable things as (human) life and vast space objects like stars, planets and galaxies.
This video was also hugely inspired by Sean Carroll’s book “The Big Picture” that touches of deep philosophical topics like origin of life, history of universe and future of the humanity beyond Earth.
Thanks for watching!
Video sources:
1). Public domain NASA videos and animations for Orion and other programs
2). Public domain educational films (“Solar System”, “Organelles in Living Plant Cells”, “View from Space”, “Early Life”, “Imaging a Hidden World”, “The Living Planet” series, “Art Portrays a Changing World”, “Europe in Transition” and others)
3). News reels from 1960s-1970s
4). NASA Apollo missions footage
5). GoPro video shot by astronaut Randy Bresnik during EVA in October 2017
6). Solar system fly-through simulation by NASA / YouTube user Thomasp671
2). Public domain educational films (“Solar System”, “Organelles in Living Plant Cells”, “View from Space”, “Early Life”, “Imaging a Hidden World”, “The Living Planet” series, “Art Portrays a Changing World”, “Europe in Transition” and others)
3). News reels from 1960s-1970s
4). NASA Apollo missions footage
5). GoPro video shot by astronaut Randy Bresnik during EVA in October 2017
6). Solar system fly-through simulation by NASA / YouTube user Thomasp671
