BLAST!

• Cast: Werner Herzog, Mark Devlin, Barth Netterfield, Victor Davison, Marie Rex
• Duration: 78 minutes
• Genre: Documentary
• Rating: 7/10
• Release Date: 2008-04-22

With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to discover thousands of early galaxies takes them from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Revealing frustrations, inevitable failures and ultimate triumph, BLAST puts a human face on the quest to answer our most basic question - How did we get here?