Capturing the high-stakes work behind NASA’s Airborne Science Program takes extra than simply technical talent – it takes imaginative and prescient. At NASA’s Armstrong Flight Analysis Heart in Edwards, California, videographer Jacob Shaw brings that imaginative and prescient to life, documenting missions with a method and storytelling strategy all his personal.
“Armstrong is filled with cutting-edge flight analysis and memorable individuals,” Shaw mentioned. “With the ability to form how these tales are advised, in my very own fashion, is extremely rewarding.”
jacob Shaw
NASA Videographer
Shaw not too long ago earned first place in NASA’s 2024 Videographer of the Yr Awards, documentation class, for his movie, “Reflections,” which chronicles the 2024 Airborne Science mission PACE-PAX – brief for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Postlaunch Airborne eXperiment. The marketing campaign used NASA Armstrong’s ER-2 high-altitude plane to gather atmospheric and ocean information in assist of the PACE satellite tv for pc, launched in February 2024.
“These missions are reside, high-stakes operations – even when the crew makes it look easy,” Shaw mentioned. “I’m fascinated not simply with capturing these moments, however with shaping them into significant tales by means of modifying.”
Shaw’s ardour for video started early, impressed by watching his father movie household recollections with a VHS camcorder within the early Nineties. He mentioned seeing these moments captured made him understand the ability of documenting actuality and impressed him to pursue videography as knowledgeable and private ardour.
“What I like most about creating movies for NASA at Armstrong Flight Analysis Heart is the artistic freedom I’m given to craft tales,” Shaw mentioned. “I’m trusted to take an idea and run with it.”
Since becoming a member of the video workforce in 2021, Shaw has documented dozens of missions, serving to to share the middle’s groundbreaking work with the world.
“We’re a small crew that wears many hats, all the time stepping as much as get the job accomplished,” Shaw mentioned. “I’m grateful for his or her encouragement to submit my work [for this award], and proud to carry residence the gold for Armstrong!”
