Tag: Hubble Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope Photos – Images Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of NASA Great Observatories

Posted: April 24, 2010 at 8:06 am   /   Local, Off the Wall

20 years ago today – on April 24, 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space by the Discovery, during shuttle mission STS-31. The Hubble Space Telescope was originally budgeted at a cost of $400 million dollars, but has cost the US upwards of $2.5 billion dollars to this date.  But the knowledge […]

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IMAX 3D CAMERAS RETURN TO SPACE TO DOCUMENT HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

Posted: May 11, 2009 at 4:08 pm   /   Local, Movie News

LOS ANGELES, CA, May 4, 2009 – IMAX Corporation (NASDAQ:IMAX; TSX:IMX), NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration) and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that IMAX® 3D cameras will return to space to document one of NASA’s most complex space shuttle operations—the final service of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), STS-125. The IMAX 3D cameras are set […]

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