Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
and finding inspiration in vintage home videos. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Mild spoilers follow.: As the film opens, NASA representatives have come to local elementary school to recruit a student, Stan, for a trip to"We've scouted you on the kickball field, we've spoken with your teachers, we're impressed with a few of your science reports and we like that you've earned a Presidential Physical Fitness award three years running," says Kranz .
I thought to weave in that childhood fantasy [into the film] because that is childhood. Childhood is over when you know how the world really works and your little insignificant place in it. The fact that I remembered it all those years later, made me think it was worth pursuing."Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood" blends fantasy with reality set against the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
We were doing this exact recreation of a time in place, so the more images that we could get, the more references, the better. So it was really helpful to have that community. We got a ton of photos and many home movies. We also had access to a lot of the archives from the city and NASA, so even though the film was largely a fantasy, it resulted in being a huge historical research project on every level that we were attempting.: Milo Coy voices Stan as a child, but the film is narrated by a grown up Stan, played by Jack Black. There is a mostly-true meme that went viral recently about how Black's mother was one of the engineers who developed the abort-guidance system used on the Apollo spacecraft.
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