High Above Down Under | Episode 2: Living With the Stars

Follow two NASA rocket teams as they launch from Australia to study our nearest stellar neighbors - Alpha Centauri A & B - on a quest to understand how stars make the planets around them suitable for life. In this episode, hear from a local Yolngu leader and learn what it takes to make a rocket range from scratch. (Spoiler: It's not an easy task.) To learn more about NASA's Sounding Rockets Program - https://www.nasa.gov/soundingrockets Music credits: "The Wilderness" by Benjamin James Parsons [PRS]; "Epic Earth" by Andy Hopkins [PRS], Dean Mahoney [PRS], Jacob Nicholas Stonewall Jackson [PRS]; " Outback Sunset" by Randall Aaron Foat [ASCAP]; "Everlasting Armenian Hope" by Mathieu Fiset [SOCAN]; "Migration" by Giovanni Antonio Parricelli [PRS]; "Coastal Highways" by lan Paul Livingstone [PRS] from Universal Production Music Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Additional footage: Office of the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory government, Equatorial Launch Australia