About
Blaine Baggett is one of America’s most accomplished storytellers about space exploration.
An award-winning documentarian, Mr. Baggett’s productions, many about space exploration, have been viewed by appreciative audiences throughout the world. As a senior executive at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA (the world’s premiere center for the robotic exploration of space), he was a major contributor in transforming the space agency’s public communications strategies and technologies involving missions such as the rover landings on Mars, Galileo’s exploration of Jupiter and Cassini’s stunning science portraits of Saturn and its rings.
Mr. Baggett is the recipient of NASA’s Distinguished Service Medal, the highest form of recognition the space agency bestows on a civilian. This award was given for his “visionary leadership in reshaping and expanding programs conveying the experience of NASA space exploration to the public at large.” In 2016 he was inducted into the distinguished International Academy of Astronautics in Paris.
His nationally broadcast productions include an extensive range of science and technology related projects, including NOVAs (Spy Machines and Earthquake!), Making the Most of the Micro, and Discoveries Underwater (the latter two being BBC co-productions). Mr. Baggett is also a published author, having co-written the companion books for two documentary series on PBS: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (BBC/Penguin) and Secret Intelligence (Doubleday).