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Homemade Astronauts
''Homemade Astronauts'' is a television show on Science Channel (Discovery Science USA) and Discovery+ that debuted in 2021. It featured DIY wannabe astronauts, who design and build their own equipment, in an attempt to reach the edge of space. The people are average Americans building on their farms, ranches, garages, and backyards. History Mike Hughes reached altitude in a manned steam rocket in 2018, filmed for the series, setting a record for an amateur manned rocket. Discovery Networks gave the greenlight for full series production in 2019, for airing on The Science Channel in 2020. In February 2020, during filming of an attempt by Mike Hughes to reach or in altitude, the steam rocket crashed on landing, killing Hughes. In March 2020, the show filmed an attempt by Kurt Anderson to break the world ice speed record in his rocket sled '' Arctic Arrow'' using a peroxide rocket, with the Rocketboys team. The attempt resulted in a crash that destroyed the dragster sled, reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Of Wonder (company)
World of Wonder Productions (WOW) is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in Television documentary, documentary television and Documentary film, film productions with a key focus on LGBT, LGBTQ topics. Together, Barbato and Bailey have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo (American TV network), Bravo, HGTV, Showtime (TV network), Showtime, BBC, Netflix, MTV and VH1, with credits including the ''Million Dollar Listing'' docuseries, ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', and the documentary films'' The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000 film), The Eyes of Tammy Faye'' (2000) and ''Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures'' (2016). World of Wonder is best known for its contributions towards LGBTQ programming, for which they won an Outfest Annual Achievement Award in 2011. Their most well known production is ''RuPaul's Drag Race.'' They have managed the career of drag queen and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
