Will This More Affordable Rocket Ship Take You to Space One Day? | Short Film Showcase

At the program’s zenith, NASA’s shuttle took only a handful of trips to space every year. Jeff Greason envisions something more like Southwest Airlines for his company XCOR. His cadre of aerospace engineers is hunkered down in the Mojave Desert, working on a spacecraft prototype with a very ambitious goal: four daily, safe, round-trip flights to space, five days a week. If XCOR can succeed, they’ll take more people to space in a period of six months (and for less money) than NASA did over 30 years. Production company Freethink documents the work of XCOR in this clip from the series The New Space Race.
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Curing Blindness: How Thousands Are Getting Their Sight Back | Short Film Showcase

In southern Africa, Namibian ophthalmologist Helena Ndume has earned the nickname “Dr. Miracle.” In alliance with SEE International, she has performed sight-restoring surgeries—free of charge—for more than 35,000 men, women, and children. In 2015, she was the first awardee of the United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize for her dedicated service to humanity. In this short film from Blue Chalk Media, meet the woman who is transforming the lives of so many people in her homeland.
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Welcome to Atlantium, the Nation Formed in a Backyard | Short Film Showcase

George Cruickshank is not your average emperor. At age 15, he carved out a piece of his mother’s backyard in New South Wales, Australia, and dubbed it the capital city of Atlantium. Thirty years later, His Imperial Majesty George II reigns over some 3,000 citizens scattered around the world. In this quirky short from director Craig Rasmus, take a journey to Australia’s smallest micro-nation—the empire of Atlantium.
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