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Silicon Valley Goes to Space
On Q November 2013
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This year’s Mark Twain Prize special airs Sunday, November 24, at 8pm on KQED 9.
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A prototype of the the Lynx Mark I commercial rocket ship, on display at the 2013 Space and Tech Expo held in May 2013 in San Diego, CA.
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Great Performances “Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn” airs Friday, November 29, at 8pm on KQED 9.
Silicon Valley Goes to Space airs Wednesday, November 20, at 7:30pm on KQED 9.
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Barbra Streisand makes a historic homecoming to Brooklyn at the new Barclays Center arena, marking the superstar’s first Brooklyn concert since her childhood. Joined by special guests Il Volo and Chris Botti, Streisand performs an extensive selection of songs from throughout her five-decade career, including a touching duet with her son, Jason Gould.
Indeed, the space of today is opening up to commercial ventures like never before. “One of the most rewarding aspects of this documentary was spending time with executives and engineers at these new space startups and witnessing the passion and intelligence they bring to their amazing endeavors,” says Sheraz Sadiq, KQED Science television producer. “Many of them are in their 20s and 30s, much like the phenomenal team of young NASA engineers who were essential to the historic success of the Apollo program.”
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A star-studded lineup of the nation’s top comedic entertainers will salute Carol Burnett at the 16th annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Upon learning she’d receive the prize, Burnett remarked, “I can’t believe I’m getting a humor prize from the Kennedy Center. It’s almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.”
Discover how the big, bold ideas of Silicon Valley are helping launch a new era of private space exploration in KQED Science’s first half-hour special. From space tourism to mining the moon to companies building rocket ships for ferrying NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300-billion global space industry. But are there new risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments? In May 2012, SpaceX became the first company to embark on a successful commercial mission to the International Space Station, ferrying more than a 1,000 pounds of supplies to the station. The founder and CEO of SpaceX, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, wants to begin flying private citizens to Mars aboard SpaceX rockets in 10 or 15 years. Virgin Galactic, founded by billionaire British entrepreneur Richard Branson, is on track to launch into commercial service in 2014, rocketing “space tourists” on a $250,000 ride to the edge of space and back.
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Masten Space Systems engineer Travis O’Neil prepares a reusable rocket for launch as a KQED crew films.
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