It’s a fitting sendoff to the Hubble, once regarded as the laughingstock of technology circles, recently spectacularly vindicated when it brought back a slew of data on the various astronomical phenomenon out there.  It will be getting its very own 3-D IMax movie, slated to be called “Hubble 3D”

Hubble 3D will include history and assorted facts about the gigantic space telescope / camera, and about the various missions that came in contact with the Hubble.  From its early days of near-constant repair to its latter days as the heroic savior of NASA’s exploratory ambitions (what, with all those awesome pics of stuff out in space you don’t want to get up there and have a look around?  I know I do!), Hubble 3D promises to be a warts and all journey through the life of this amazing piece of hardware.

I’m definitely looking forward to this, and if there were an IMax theater within a hundred miles of me I might well go to see it.  But at least I’ll be able to catch it on DVD, even if it’s nowhere near the same.

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