“It was five seconds and it was clear we were going to do it,” Herzog says. The team behind the Red Bull Stratos mission battles mechanical failures, hostile weather, and internal demons to make Felix Baumgartners historic jump. “I just felt instantly that meteorites are a phenomenon that speak to us on both a scientific and a metaphysical level.” Oppenheimer had previously collaborated with Herzog on Into the Inferno, and when he pitched the German auteur on a movie about meteorites he didn’t have to wait long for a decision. The film is freely available to the public on the documentary’s website. “I was struck by the significance these stones have for understanding the earliest period of the solar system and the building blocks of life on Earth,” he says. The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine in consortium with Caltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced today the release of the documentary Space Health: Surviving in the Final Frontier. When Oppenheimer saw the vast collection of meteorites stored at the institute, he knew there was a bigger story to tell. Oppenheimer traces the genesis of Fireball, which drops Friday on Apple TV+, to a visit to Korean Polar Research Institute, which sponsors an annual Antarctic expedition to collect meteorites. “Every stone has its own separate story,” Herzog says. With ground-breaking new discoveries and even more stunning high-definition computer animations, its a wondrous yet deadly adventure through space and time. ![]() Herzog and his codirector, Cambridge University volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, interview boffins geeking out over meteorites in their lab, of course, but also a jazz musician prowling for micrometeorites on the rooftops of Oslo, an indigenous painter chronicling otherworldly stories in the outback of Australia, and a Jesuit priest keeping vigil over a meteorite collection in a secluded European observatory. Written and directed by Werner Herzog, the documentary aims to make sense of extraterrestrial geology, to trace all the ways meteorites have made impressions far beyond the edges of any individual crater.
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