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Blast : Audio

Coverage by Nobuhiro Hosoki

Please put the volume up.

From the left, Professor Barth Netterfield, Professor Mark Devlin, Director Paul Devlin

Story : 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?