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... television series. He also won dozens of awards for his documentary film-making, including the Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival for his epic mini-series "Rocket Science". Producer, writer ... special effects wizard, Michael's work on space documentaries was unparalleled. Extracts of his remarkable films can be seen https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencehighway/videos HERE . A summary of his ...

... . She was working on something. We were going to wrap some food in a special film Kel-F . … It’s real expensive. It’s like $5,000 for just a little ... paperwork. She told them she didn’t care what the paperwork was; she wanted the film. We eventually got it, but I couldn’t believe that they were so involved over ... . '''Ross-Nazzal:''' And those can be laid flat? '''Bourland:''' Yes, they’re just a flexible film, so they can be compressed or whatever. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Why don’t you tell us ...

... magnetic spots (bits) on thin magnetic film, retaining several hundred times more data per square inch of film than was generally stored on present magnetic film or tape. Success of new process might ... interplanetary spacecraft on a one-inch-square strip of film; retention of 10 million bits of scientific data per square inch of film by onboard computers; and substantial reduction in computer size ...

... from Skylab would be "far superior" to previous data because actual film would be returned to earth. To return film, crews would conduct two extra-vehicular activities (EvAs) on first mission, three ... two on third. "We're going to be moving ... 240 pounds 109 kg worth of film, in canisters, magazines, in and out of the cameras. We'll have to remove the used exposed film and replace it with new film. It's going to take about 3 hours." Experiments were described by ...

... can't solve this thermal problem we have a serious situation." Schneider feared foods and film might be spoiled, plastic parts might begin to leak poisonous gases, and the laboratory might ... resembled "skin divers snorkeling through a cave in the Caribbean" or a scene from the film "2001" with astronauts "in orange flight suits and white T-shirts swimming like fish through ... 15-min color telecast they per-formed housekeeping chores and-to the music from the film "2001"-did handstands, somersaults, and cartwheels in the zero-g atmosphere. Conrad led the crew ...

... or profitable: for instance, some center groups had been "banking" silver recovered from X-ray films and developing solution. The photo lab and documentation repository had contributed much because of the ... 324 troy ounces of silver-bearing photo processing; residue and 2,400 pounds of scrap film; assuming 90% recovery from the residue and 2%-by-weight recovery from scrap, MARSHALL SPACE ...

... . Russian director Yuri Kara had submitted a proposal to bring actors and film crews to Mir to shoot the film, entitled "Space Flight Has a Price." Although the Russian Space Agency had ... in the space community, but Kara noted that Russian cosmonauts already had acting experience, having filmed commercials aboard the space station for products, including Pepsi-Cola, Omega watches, and Israeli milk ...

... early, probably halfway through our training program, was that we really wanted to have extra film, we wanted to get briefings from people around the world who were experts in different ... . So we enjoyed those forty hours of training. They gave us a lot of extra film, a lot of which was ruined when the Skylab had its problem and part of ... meant going into a lot of the cameras in the ATM and removing film packages and putting new film packages in. But that was the first EVA. The second EVA I went ...

... , and we very quickly decided as we looked at the damage and looked at what film we could find—there wasn’t a lot, it was all pad kind of ... down at the Patrick Air Force Base Florida where the launch films were developed, we would look at the films, and we began seeing huge pieces of this stuff shooting past the ... the body flap and so the tiles had come off. We then found it on film. That was a stop-your-heart minute, because the vehicle, by that point, had gotten ...

... movies, expressing Gene Roddenbury's humanist vision of the human future in space. The large-film IMAX format, with its massive screen and surround sound, brings the experience even closer to ... of the most famous photographs of all time are images of Earth as recorded on film by astronauts in flight. Recently, astronaut Don Petit lived about the International Space Station for ... moves beyond the purely utilitarian, what new forms of beauty will space architects create? Will films actually made in space differ from the images of space that are produced today using ...

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