Alumnus and screenwriter Scott Frank joins Patrice Petro of film and media studies to discuss the global hit and its influence on Frank’s Emmy-winning show, “The Queen’s Gambit.”
Patrick McCray, a historian at UC Santa Barbara who sat in on early meetings about the observatory, told me that O’Keefe’s decision to honor an American bureaucrat put off some scientists at the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, with whom NASA is working on the mission.
