Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.
Just like any studio, they want to be able to get in the Oscar race so that top tier authors will come to them to make movies instead of the big studios that are out there.
Fifty years after the historic launch, a new documentary tells the mission`s story with new accuracy, piece together with archival film and recordings unearthed by the filmmakers.
You could see it with the public funding of sports stadiums or film and TV productions that have gotten billions of subsidies from states like Atlanta, New York, and Louisiana.
Now we can take the people with the filmmaking talent and show them how to live in space for a little while so that, so that it hopefully we'll get better movies out of it.