The World

Early in his career, Ed Belbruno was an astronomer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and he had a radical idea about getting to the moon. Today he’s more interested in moving the people who come to see his paintings. Produced by Mike Lemonick.

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