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SPACE STATION 3D to be retired and replaced by HUBBLE 3D
Tuesday, March 30 by Julie Brown
Popular educational title SPACE STATION 3D has been been running continuously as part of our our school library for the past 10 years and it's time for the print to be retired and replaced by newcomer HUBBLE 3D. Close to 100,000 students have seen Space Station 3D in its lifetime here in Darling Harbour, making it one of our top educational films (second only after Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure).
With Hubble 3D, teachers and students have a unique opportunity to not travel into space but also see images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope... images that when presented eight storeys high on the giant IMAX screen, will simply take your breath away. 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, saw the footage for the first time last year, 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 more 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 screens in Sydney exclusively for schools from 13 May.
With Hubble 3D, teachers and students have a unique opportunity to not travel into space but also see images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope... images that when presented eight storeys high on the giant IMAX screen, will simply take your breath away. 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, saw the footage for the first time last year, 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 more 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 screens in Sydney exclusively for schools from 13 May.
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