“You don’t choose your passions, your passions choose you.” So begins Jeff Bezos, then the world’s richest man. It is Thursday, 9 May 2019 and he is on stage in front of a dimly lit audience, somewhat reminiscent of Apple’s famous keynote events. He will present his long-term vision not only for the future of some of his business interests, but for all of humanity, spanning hundreds of years into the future, and defining millennia after that. It is a dream he has held on to for decades longer than the past two spent building Blue Origin, the aerospace manufacturer and suborbital spaceflight company he founded in 2000.
The documentary film “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill,” premiering Saturday, April 17, will introduce a new generation to O’Neill, a Princeton physics professor and inventor who sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-li
Documentary featuring Princeton visionary physicist Gerard O’Neill premieres Saturday, April 17
Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications
April 16, 2021 10:33 a.m.
The documentary film “The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O’Neill,” premiering Saturday, April 17, will introduce a new generation to O Neill, a Princeton physics professor and inventor who sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space. (View the trailer.)
O’Neill is best known for his 1977 book, “The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space,” which details how humans can build rotating space habitats in low-Earth orbit using a design he called the “O’Neill Cylinder.”
O’Neill Cylinders were designed to recreate Earth’s gravity and house millions of people for work and play, with the goal of solving the major concerns facing Earth such as hunger, overpopulation, dwindling resources and war.
The High Frontier Live Premiere Event Announcement The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O Neill tells the untold story of Dr. Gerard K. O Neill who wrote the 1977 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, which sparked a grassroots movement to build Earth-like habitats in space in order to solve Earth s greatest crises. The film is told through Gerry s Kids as they affectionately call themselves; his peers, family, and the younger generation who followed that movement and are now leading the modern-day space industry.
Top-Billed Cast: Dr. Gerard K. O Neill, Tasha O Neill, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Isaac Asimov, Freeman Dyson, Arthur C. Clarke, Johnny Carson, Dan Rather, Frank White, Rick Tumlinson, Peter Diamandis