Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-18
The Last Rocketman
A feature documentary and companion book about rocket-belt pilot Dan Schlund, personal flight, and the dangerous subculture that refused to let the jetpack dream die.
Why it surfacedThe project turns a 2013 live-TV crash and a planned comeback into a sixty-year story of Cold War dreamers, backyard builders, rivalries, stolen prototypes, kidnapping, and murder. Its copy knows exactly how strange the material is—“what does it take to get back on the horse when the horse is, technically, a rocket?”
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The Plotter’s 09:30 Shift
August 18’s newborn domains include an obsolete pen plotter clocking in at 09:30, emergency warnings designed for sight, touch, or hearing, a funeral-folder tool calibrated for printer drift, and photographs of Colombian rental signs turned into a housing map.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-18 Domain Arrivals issue.