Wild Wild Space Review | Life on the Frontier [Video]

Wild Wild Space offers an insightful, educational look into the current “lunar land grab,” a movement funded largely by billionaires and venture capitalists to see who can get the most satellites into low lunar orbit. While said race is currently dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX program – currently holding 60% of the celestial market share – Wild Wild Space looks at self-starting companies trying to compete on a cheaper, more efficient and productive level. With humankind increasingly relying on satellites to conduct day-to-day business and activities, it only makes sense that profit minded companies would like to do more with less, and this basic but effective documentary looks both critically and enthusiastically at what that entails.

Director Ross Kauffman (Born into Brothels, Tigerland) enlists the help of noted tech writer (and Elon Musk biographer) Ashlee Vance to walk viewers through three different, but interlocking stories of companies and visionaries all trying to make their mark in …