Mission To Mir

Space station Mir... isn't that where they can't take out the garbage without setting the place on fire? This IMAX documentary comes along just in time to rehabilitate its tattered reputation, focusing on recent U.S.-Russian cooperation on board Mir (the Russian word for peace, by the way) and American astronaut Shannon Lucid's record-breaking six-month stay. As in previous IMAX space productions, footage was shot by the astronauts themselves, and the results are often breathtaking: If the idea of exploring outer space still gives you chills, you can hardly beat these three-story-high IMAX images. By contrast, much of the earthbound footage of Americans and Russia...