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And so it began

The date was April 12, 1981. I was still in elementary school when Space Transportation System-1 (STS-1)—better known as the space shuttle Columbia—lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad LC-39A, ushering in a return to manned spaceflight for the United States since the Apollo program ended in December 1972 (less than a year before I …

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Did you ever wonder?

Have you ever wondered what makes a movie presented in the IMAX format different than a traditional movie? Behind the scenes, a lot of technology and science goes into capturing, editing, and presenting a movie in the IMAX format. Things from larger film negatives to the overall weight of a movie (Oppenheimer weighed in at …

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