THE HIGH FRONTIER: THE UNTOLD STORY OF DR. GERARD K. O'NEILL

摘要

The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill pays much overdue tribute to the figure many regard as the father of the space settlement movement. The film chronicles the life, career, and legacy of O'Neill from his origins as a young Navy sailor to his prime as one of sci-comm's first rock stars. Rare archival photos and footage allow the reader to know O'Neill-who faded into relative obscurity following his tragic 1992 death from leukemia complications-for the first time in this depth. As the film opens, O'Neill is shown in archival recordings discussing his fantastic yet practical designs for our future in space. We also meet O'Neill the physicist and Princeton professor whose work in pioneering the particle storage ring was largely overlooked and uncredited. We then come to know the man who tried out for the NASA astronaut corps circa 1967, just missing the cut. Finally, we meet a loving father and husband, and discover how his space settlement treatises weren't born only from his desire to build something incredible, but to extend civilization for future generations.