The Extraordinary Life of the Man Behind Mars and Jupiter Missions: STARMAN

There are documentaries about history, and then there are documentaries about the people who were quietly in the room when history happened. STARMAN, the new film from Academy Award–nominated director Robert Stone, belongs firmly in the latter category. It chronicles the life of Gentry Lee—NASA scientist, mission architect, science communicator, and one of those rare figures whose career seems to map directly onto the modern Space Age. If the Space Age began in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik, then Gentry Lee—born in 1942—has lived his entire adult life shaped by humanity’s reach beyond Earth. More than a witness to that history, Lee has been in the room for many of its defining moments. As a senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lee served as Director of Science Analysis and Mission Planning for the Viking mission to Mars and the Galileo probe to Jupiter, missions that transformed our understanding of the solar system. Alongside this work, he collaborated with Carl Sagan on PBS’s landmark series COSMOS, narrated Discovery Channel’s ARE WE ALONE?, and co-authored four novels with legendary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. A Zelig-like figure at the crossroads of interplanetary science and science fiction, Gentry Lee has been everywhere—and worked with everyone—who helped define how we imagine space. Now the subject of STARMAN, Lee guides us through a lifetime of curiosity, wonder, and exploration. The film is both entertaining and illuminating—and our conversation with him reflects that same spirit. Our conversation with Gentry Lee, subject of STARMAN, on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, starting now.  @laemmle   @OfficialRaphaelSbarge   @ObscuredReleasing  #StarmanMovie STARMAN documentary, Starman film, Gentry Lee, Gentry Lee NASA, Robert Stone documentary, Robert Stone director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL NASA, space exploration documentary, Viking mission to Mars, Galileo probe to Jupiter, Carl Sagan, COSMOS PBS, Arthur C. Clarke, science and imagination, space age documentary, interplanetary exploration, Are We Alone documentary, Inside the Arthouse, documentary film podcast #STARMAN #GentryLee #RobertStone #NASADocumentary #SpaceExploration #JetPropulsionLaboratory #CarlSagan #ArthurCClarke #DocumentaryFilm #InsideTheArthouse #SpaceAge #AreWeAlone #ArthouseCinema #filmpodcast

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