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Remember the Hugo and Nebula award-winning story Stardance by Spider and Jeanne Robinson? The story of the first zero-G dance, and the impact it had on the world and our future in space?
It's happening. Slowly, but it's happening.
Jeanne Robinson, dancer and choreographer, was slated to be the second civilian in space before the Challenger disaster cancelled the program, and it took decades before she could get up there. But thanks to some fundraising, a lot of help, and the generosity of the Zero-G Corp (a company that offers high parabola loops in a jet to provide minutes of microgravity, same sort of thing that allowed Ron Howard to shoot the floating scenes in "Apollo 13") she went up with dancer Kathleen McDonagh and director James Sposto to shoot the first zero-G dance.
They didn't get as much footage as they hoped, but they began to get a feel of it. And as a huge fan of the original book, I am dying to see what they end up with.
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