Jazz pianist, early synthesizer adopter, bandleader, record-label president, interplanetary ambassador: Sun Ra was all of these things and more. Born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama—and reborn on Saturn as a pioneer of Afrofuturism who returned to Earth with a mission to liberate Black people from their psychic shackles—the musical genius and his ever-evolving “Arkestra” ensemble made some of the boldest, most exciting experimental jazz of the mid-twentieth century and beyond. Using testimonials from critics and longtime collaborators, filmmaker Christine Turner chronicles how Sun Ra turned his truly out-of-this-world persona into something bigger than an alter ego, and put forth a philosophy that “space is the place” to make people rethink everything they knew about race, class, social norms, and music as a medium to blow minds. It’s a portrait of an artist as a cultural astronaut, boldly going where no one has gone before or since.