NASA's most chaotic launch: pandemic deadlines, giant solar wings, and asteroids older than Earth.
For two and a half years we followed the scientific team of the NASA Lucy Mission a mission that will unveil the origins of the Solar System and shared with them the many challenges they had to overcome such as a countdown to launch on time the building of the huge solar arrays or a pandemic.
Direction
Ruth Chao captures launch panic without manufactured drama.
Production
Access to mission control during COVID is documentary gold.
Director
Ruth Chao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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