The Old Negro Space Program is a short mockumentary in the style of a Ken Burns film. Imagining a black space program, whose "blackstronauts" were excluded from "White NASA", the film lampoons Burns's history of the Negro Leagues, a subject of his 1994 series, Baseball.
The ten-minute film was produced and directed by Andy Bobrow, who has written for the television series Hype and Malcolm in the Middle. Bobrow later went on to write the Community episode Pillows and Blankets, another parody of Ken Burns.
It was created for broad release on the Internet.
The piece has received mixed reactions from bloggers and minority rights activist groups. It was nominated for a 2005 Nebula Award but was reluctantly ruled ineligible. The SFWA stated that the disqualification in no way reflected on the work's quality.
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