mock technologies » hubble http://mocktech.com/blog geek by birth. linux by choice. Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 hubble on the imax http://mocktech.com/blog/2009/12/hubble-on-the-imax/ http://mocktech.com/blog/2009/12/hubble-on-the-imax/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:37:28 +0000 mock http://mockfoo.com/blog/?p=143 i was sitting through the previews of avatar and caught the 3-D clip of an upcoming presentation of the shuttle launch serving hubble for the final time in may of 2009. nasa shot the presentation using imax 3-D cameras. this will debut spring 2010. (http://imax.com/hubble/)

this happens to be the shuttle mission which i got to witness the launch in person. not only did i get to see the launch with my own eyeballs but with this presentation i get to see the up close and 3-D personal of the entire mission on the really big screen. awesome!

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my cousin (first and a half cousin?) sent me some links to photos of the shuttle taken by rod ostoski, a photographer who lives in florida.  the set of photos at the link below shows a rare scene of both the atlantis and the endeavour on launch pads a and b in the same shot.

STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission to Hubble

the photographer has some other shuttle pictures in some other galleries if you are interested.  check out the links to his galleries at the top of his page (at the link above).

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