As a federal agency, NASA cannot legally purchase broadcast time for this video. Mountains have not deterred climbers, oceans have not stopped sailors and gravity has not stopped astronauts.
Fans of "Veronica Mars" recently funded a movie version of the former TV series through a website called Kickstarter. To get the movie made, series creator Rob Thomas had to raise $2 million. That goal was reached in under 12 hours. When all was said and done, a total of 91,585 backers contributed $5,702,153. To make a movie. About a TV series. That was cancelled.
You can be part of a fundraising effort to place the NASA video "We Are The Explorers" as a trailer to the upcoming "Star Trek: Into Darkness" on as many screens as possible. I may not be a fan of the J.J. Abrams re-boot of my beloved Star Trek, but plenty of people are and will see the movie. What better way to inspire us to greatness by fanning the flames of space exploration with people who are already enticed by it?
The effort has been tremendously successful so far. "We Are The Explorers" will air on 50 screens across the nation for the first 8 weeks of the run of "Star Trek: Into Darkness" as an edited 30 second piece. The campaign is now working to hit a goal that will enable them to put the trailer in at least one theater in every state in the USA for two weeks.
Get on board at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/we-are-the-explorers-a-movie-trailer-for-our-space-program.
NASA today, Starfleet tommorow. As Carl Sagan said, we are capable of greatness.
