Journey to Space

Patrick Stewart narrates this informative, inspirational, 3D, 45-minute, 2015 IMAX documentary that gives a history lesson of NASA's space program and our desire for deep space exploration; showcases the space shuttles Endeavor, which was the first reusable, piloted space craft, and Atlantis housed at the Kennedy Space Center, shows astronauts working at the international space station, which was built by fifteen countries, and fixing the Hubble Space Telescope that gives us an unprecedented view of Earth and other distant galaxies; consists of interviews with astronauts Dr. Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor and Chris J. Ferguson and engineer Lindsay Atchison working on designing a functional, comfortable, and safe space suit; and details NASA's plans for sending six astronauts on a three-mission to Mars in the 2030s using the thirty-eight story Orion shuttle and inflatable habitat.
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