William Atkins
Tuesday, 05 May 2009 18:58
Science -
Space
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NASA announced on May 4, 2009 that its STS-125 mission to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope will be filmed by IMAX Corporation and Warner Brothers Pictures for a three-dimensional film called Hubble 3D.
According to the NASA media release
NASA to launch IMAX 3-D camera to film Hubble servicing mission, the final servicing mission to
Hubble will have IMAX 3-D cameras onboard when the space shuttle
Atlantis is launched on May 11, 2009, from the Kennedy Space Center.
The article states,
“Astronauts will use the cameras to film five spacewalks needed to repair and upgrade Hubble. The IMAX footage will be combined with breathtaking detailed images of distant galaxies from Hubble in the upcoming IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures co-production, "Hubble 3D," set for release in spring 2010.”
NASA’s acting assistant administrator for public affairs, Bob Jacobs, who is stationed at NASA Headquarters, stated,
"We have worked with IMAX on past Hubble missions and are excited about working with them again on the current Hubble mission. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to dazzle us with the splendor of our universe, and after the mission we look forward to many more years of awe-inspiring imagery.”
Jacobs adds,
“IMAX has developed innovative 3-D image capture and projection technology that creates a large-scale, immersive educational experience in which those of us on the ground are no longer passive observers of spaceflight, we're active participants."
Toni Myers will be producing and directing the film, although she will be doing this work here on Earth. The STS-125 astronauts will be working the IMAX cameras while in space.
They have already been trained on the use of the cameras during their training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake City, just on the southern edge of Houston, Texas.
Page two details more aspects of the STS-125 mission with respect to the 3D cameras and Hubble's history of space images.
