Trembling in Orbit: The Astronaut's Secret

The Rich Clifford Story, By Skip Press, Contributor, October 15, 2011 8:30 AM

My latest favorite is The Astronaut's Secret, a documentary put together by Zach Jankovic, a Houston filmmaker whose neurologist father, Dr. Joseph Jankovic, diagnosed astronaut Rich Clifford in 1994 and found early signs of Parkinson's disease.

The film will be a 30-minute documentary about the life of Astronaut Clifford and will examine how he kept his Parkinson’s Disease a secret from the public for 17 years, which included a six-hour spacewalk from the Mir space station, during the 76th Space Shuttle mission, the 16th mission for the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

If you want to help fight Parkinson's and see this film made, have a visit. Rewards for pledges start as low as $1, going all the way up to $10,000 or more (which includes a three-minute film made about you or your company by the director). Hey, that might put your name in orbit!