Welcome to Titusville

We get pretty stoked on Space related science over here at Trunk and in the months leading up to the final Space Shuttle (STS-135) launch we got the opportunity to work with our good friends over in New York, Ride5, on making a short film on the last days of a pretty amazing program. The Space Launch System, aka Space Shuttle. Spanning over 30 years, these craft have delivered men and cargo to LEO and helped push science and technology that bit further.

Ride5 were heading down to Florida show off their latest feature doc and while they were down in Florida suggested we come over and help them to make a film in the area.
With us all being fans of Space the logical thing to film seemed to be something related to the end of the Shuttle program. This idea brought us to the Space Coast where we met residents of Titusville, many of whom have worked on the Shuttle program since its inception three decades ago.

With the final launch behind us now, a great deal of these people are now left without a job and a house they cannot sell. We kept hearing the phrase ‘ghost town’ and realised that Titusville like Detroit before it, is now suffering from losing its industrial base, only this industry happens to be launching men out of our atmosphere on the most complex machine ever created.

Everyone we spoke to in Titusville saw the Shuttle as more than just a jobs program, it inspires, they care about it beyond getting a pay cheque. We, both Ride5 and Trunk wanted this piece to give a voice to the people who’ve lived by the Kennedy Space Center and worked on Shuttle program their entire lives.

Welcome to Titusville.

We’d like to thank Ride5 for inviting us along, without them this simply would not have happened and we’re grateful to have seen a small part of history.

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