NASA Says "Warp Speed, Mr. Scott"

Take a cinematographer from UCSC with MTV & VH1 on his resume, add a Mass Communications major from BU who wants to save the world and inspire the next generation of space explorers, and what do you think you'll get? 

The answer is "Reach," a Public Service Announcement for NASA that will make you want to thumb a ride to Houston, live in a Frigidaire box across the street from JSC, and panhandle for food scraps just to catch a glimpse of the outer-space glitterati folks who might actually DO this. (5/22 update: Hat tip to the kind folks @ CadetStuff.org who hosted the file while NASA's server apparently has choked on the traffic. -rCPg) 

"Both PSA's focus on igniting the fire in children and lifelong learners to dream big and concentrate on Mars as the next frontier. They are meant to tease the viewer, to think and inquire within to find that spirit of exploration."

:: Yuri's Night: "NASA Means Business" Competition"

I'll admit it: I'm an Aerospace Geek to the core. Things like this just make me  think of the grand scale, scope and accomplishment of our nation's space program.  Even just contemplating the possiblities of whats to come causes me to swell with pride.

Sure, the budget wrangling and the operational setbacks are a bummer and get you thinking sometimes that there is no way in hell we can do this thing.  But then you're standing on your deck some clear, dark night and you see that little dot come over the horizon. And you just know that's two or three astronauts hurtling around our little blue globe in the International Space Station.  Takes your breath right away.

"You're cleared for Trans-Lunar Injection.." 

Come on, boys, lets do this thing.