![]() | Space Frontiers Lecture - "Lights, camera, blast-off! Making IMAX movies in space" Toni Myers, Producer/Director, IMAX Corporation |
| date: | 7:00PM US Central (GMT −0500) Tuesday, October 23, 2012 |
| location: | McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall |
| sponsor: | Dean of Natural Sciences & Rice Space Institute |
| summary: | On April 4 of this year the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., took ownership of 2 unique 70mm IMAX cameras that had completed a total of 20 space shuttle missions from 1984 to 1998. The IMAX team turned 99 astronauts into movie makers who captured stunning never-before-seen views of our planet, breath-taking spacewalks, and space exploration milestones such as the release of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first ever view of the shuttle against the backdrop of Earth.
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| more info: | Rice Events Calendar |
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