 ***PLEASE NOTE: A Blu-ray 3D disc is only compatible with 3D Blu-ray players.*** Tagline: A select few have been aboard. Now it's your turn! So this is where our tomorrows begin: 220 miles above the Earth and moving at a speed of 17,500 MPH while aboard the most complex scientific project ever assembled: the International Space Station (ISS). Tom Cruise narrates this fascinating look at the high-flying laboratory where today's space heroes develop technologies that will make possible human voyages to Mars as well as provide new solutions to earthbound problems. Highlights include the station's in-orbit construction, plus amazing glimpses of crew members as they work, exercise or do routine tasks like getting a haircut or drinking water (in zero gravity, you can snap a floating glob of H2O out of the air like a frog snatching a fly!). Suit up, travelers! User Comment: morningkeith from Winnipeg, MB, 3 January 2003 • So you wanna spend umpteen million bucks and go visit the space station? Why not just spend eight bucks and go see this movie? That way you get the weightlessness without the nausea (unless you're sitting too close to the screen). For people expecting an action picture, I think Space Station will seem slow and dry. But for science and astronomy geeks who want to see what's up there, this movie is pretty cool. After thirty minutes, planet earth seems foreign, and the space station seems familiar! It seems so narrow and long, like a school hallway lined with scientific equipment. Tom Cruise was a good choice of narrator, because of, yeah, star appeal, but also because his voice telegraphs his childlike sense of wonder. To me, there was also a sense of danger, similar to the danger of being on a submarine. You're travelling through a truly hostile environment, and always just a thin shell away from disaster. For the general public, I'd give it a seven. But for space geeks, it's atleast a nine. Now I can't wait for "Apollo 13" to come to IMAX. Summary: Like the moon: dry but cool. User Comment: chschera from Providence, RI, 22 April 2002 • The first 3D space adventure from IMAX was worth the wait. This film chronicling the first stages of construction of Space Station Alpha from the launch of Zarya to the Expedition Two crew was incredible. The 3D effects during launch and while on orbit were spectacular. I highly recommend this IMAX experience for any true space lover. Summary: Incredible footage; whatta 3D experience! IMDb Rating (01/15/12): 7.3/10 from 812 users
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