Red carpet premiere for ‘Hubble 3D’ movie at the Smithsonian Museum
The world’s premiere of the Warner Brother’s new IMAX film Hubble 3D was on Tuesday at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
The movie features footage of the last servicing mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope on May of 2009. The STS-125 Mission astronaut crew used IMAX 3D cameras that were mounted in space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay to film their repair work in space.
The astronauts walked the red carpet at the Smithsonian as the true stars of the film, except that one very important member was absent. The missing star was Hubble itself, which was busy orbiting Earth at 350 miles above the surface doing what it does best: photograph space.
The space team’s Hubble 3D film is their seventh feature, which are all led by Toni Myers. “Hubble 3D offers audiences a unique look at the space telescope’s legacy and how it has changed our view of the universe.” Myers said to collectSPACE.com.
