Online Documentary Film: "For All Mankind"

It might be argued that our space program reached its zenith between 1968 and 1972. As primitive as much of our technology back then may appear to us now, we had the ingenuity, the nerve, the motivation, and the fuel to pull off a remarkable series of "manned" flights to the moon and back.

The people at NASA, sensing the historical significance of what they were doing, filmed much of their operation and stored it in their archives until director Al Reinert came along and used it to make "For All Mankind," a documentary that was originally released in 1989.

Astronaut interviews and NASA's remarkable footage - from their control rooms to inside the space capsules - makes this eighty-minute movie a special treat.


Relive a time in American history when we seemed to have had the world by the tail. Watch "For All Mankind."

Stay-at-Home Inventors

Not all heroes of technology are high-tech heroes. Some are just stay-at-home moms like the women in this video that saw a need and went ahead and invented things to fill that need:

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Heroes of Technology: William Kamkwamba

William Kamkwamba is from the poor African country of Malawi. In 2001 when he was 14 years old, a drought came over the land and Wiliam and his family could only eat one small meal per day. Since school is not free in Malawi, he also had to quit school. William was not happy with the way things were so he went to a library and even though his English was poor, he used diagrams to teach himself to build a windmill from materials that he found in a scrapyard.


Although people thought he was crazy, William's windmill generated electricity. He built another one to pump water for irrigation. Like the person who built a better mousetrap, people beat a path to the teenage inventor's door.

Now 22, William gave this inspirational six-minute talk a few months ago. I strongly encourage you to view it.




See William's windmills in action and part of his book tour in America.