Old Feelings

Apollo 13 is on.

I still love this movie. It is exactly the type of movie that I want to make. Unfortunately, Apollo 13 is the only mission that I know of that is dramatic enough to warrant a movie.

If space travel ever returns to real missions that go places, then I might consider NASA again. As it is, after I get settled into my career I think I'd like to start work on a PhD in Planetary Geosciences. Why? Because I still love the stuff. I have a feeling that when I'm 45 I'll apply to NASA as an ASCAN. By then I'll be established as a filmmaker and I'll be able to use that as leverage. In 20 years we'll hopefully be back on the moon and on our way to mars, NASA will need the publicity. And who better to produce quality footage and work the media than a Hollywood professional. And who better than me, who has always had a passion for space travel and has always loved NASA to be that Hollywood professional.

Or, I could just forget it. But I'm not that sort of person.