Space Station 3-D

Anyone who ever fantasized about space travel but can't afford the $20 million ticket to ride a Russian rocket should catch this IMAX offering. Narrated by Tom Cruise, this spectacularly photographed, 40-minute film is the first IMAX production shot in outer space; it's a perfect match of content — the construction of the International Space Station (ISS) — and IMAX's large-screen 3D format. Orbiting some 250 miles above the Earth's surface, the ISS is a wildly ambitious international collaboration involving 16 countries (including the U.S., Russia, Canada and Japan) with the goal of building a laboratory in space. The various components of the ISS are buil...