IMAX NEWS
Early HUBBLE 3D footage brings a tear to astronaut's eye
Tuesday, February 2 by Julie Brown
IMAX held two early footage press preview screenings for Hubble 3D last week in New York and Los Angeles. Both events were attended by key press - and the response was spectacular!
Astronaut Mike Massimino, one of the seven who flew aboard the shuttle Atlantis on a daring bid to rescue and repair the Hubble Space Telescope last year, presented the footage at the New York screening and saw the footage for the first time, prompting this emotional response:
"It's OK for astronauts to cry, right?"
No doubt watching oneself floating in space on the giant IMAX screen creates a surge of emotion unlike any other. And for the rest of us, the experience is as close to actually being in space as you can be while still firmly grounded here on Earth.
CLICK HERE to read an article about the screenings in POPSCI online.
Astronaut, Mike Massimino
“The footage of Hubble itself, with the curved Earth as a backdrop, is remarkable. I had not appreciated the size of the instrument until I saw, in the film's footage, how it dwarfed spacewalker Mike Massimino as he climbed inside its access doors to work on the telescope's innards.” – J. Matson, Scientific American. CLICK HERE to read the full article.
IMAX HUBBLE 3D starts in Sydney on 13 May.
Astronaut Mike Massimino, one of the seven who flew aboard the shuttle Atlantis on a daring bid to rescue and repair the Hubble Space Telescope last year, presented the footage at the New York screening and saw the footage for the first time, prompting this emotional response:
"It's OK for astronauts to cry, right?"
No doubt watching oneself floating in space on the giant IMAX screen creates a surge of emotion unlike any other. And for the rest of us, the experience is as close to actually being in space as you can be while still firmly grounded here on Earth.
CLICK HERE to read an article about the screenings in POPSCI online.
Astronaut, Mike Massimino
“The footage of Hubble itself, with the curved Earth as a backdrop, is remarkable. I had not appreciated the size of the instrument until I saw, in the film's footage, how it dwarfed spacewalker Mike Massimino as he climbed inside its access doors to work on the telescope's innards.” – J. Matson, Scientific American. CLICK HERE to read the full article.
IMAX HUBBLE 3D starts in Sydney on 13 May.
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