On Monday I was sitting home and had just finished up doing my homework when my dad came home with some movie tickets. He had found them sitting in the lobby of his office free to take if anybody wanted them. They were tickets to an IMAX show at AMC 20 called Space Station profiling the construction of the International Space Station that has be floating above our heads since 1998.
My younger brother, wanted the third ticket so he tagged along. We got to the theater probably around ten minutes early,looked at a few posters for movies coming out this winter and bought some popcorn. We walked into the theater immediately recieved our 3D glasses and turned around to a sea of people. We had managed to get to a sold out show. Sitting in the perfect seat in the middle of the crowd the movie started.
I hadn't been to an IMAX show since the summer of 2007 at The Henry Ford. I obviously forgot just how real it was. The movie started with a space view from earth and then the crowd heard a quiet countdown. The noise became more definate at the last three numbers 3...2...1... and my ears exploded. It was the most realistic sound of a rocket blasting off I've ever heard. The noise was earth-shattering, the ground was literally shaking and being 3D, dust was flinging in my face and rocks were narrowly missing my head. The only way my brain knew what I was seeing was a movie was the abscence of the actual wind.
The movie was amazing. It followed the construction of the International Space Station and how the astronauts actually lived inside of it. It gave an interesting history lesson about Russia and the United States and the race to the moon. Today they are working together on a future home in space. It was a really cool movie for a totally free event.
At the end of the film it profiled what pieces will be added to the station in the years to come, including parts from the United States, Russia, Italy, and Japan and the credits rolled. Walking out of the theater, my dad and I were talking about what we had just saw and my little brother decided he wanted to be an astronaut. I never knew much about space, and before this film I didn't there was ann actually space station right above our heads. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years.
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