LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION. . . . . .
Who doesn’t love a great space movie? From Jules Verne to Star Wars and Star Trek, space has inspired millions to dream about what is out there. Of course, what is out there has been conjured up right here on terra firma, in Hollywood. News flash Hollywood is coming to the International Space Station with Tom Cruise.
It has been confirmed by NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine, on Twitter. The Hollywood star, who is famous for doing all his own stunts, will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) at some point in the future, proving there is no limit to what he would do for authenticity for his craft.
Elena and Dimitry Lesnevsky, producers on an upcoming Tom Cruise movie set in space, announced in January 2022 that they signed a deal to build a fully operational movie studio connected to the International Space Station. The 20-foot-wide studio, dubbed Space Entertainment Enterprise-1 (SEE-1), is slated to launch December 2024 and will be the world's first functional entertainment and content studio in space.
Talk about filming on location.The ISS is about 408 kilometers (253 miles) from the surface of the planet but getting to it is not a straight trek. The space station is moving 27,600 kilometers per hour (17,100 miles per hour) so a spacecraft needs to match its speed and orbit. This approach certainly takes hours and in the past has taken days. The Russian Soyuz, currently the only way for crew to reach the ISS, has ranged between
50 hours to less than six in recent years.
Even assuming a quick rendezvous with the space station, unless special arrangements are made, Cruise and his team (assuming there will be a team) will be there for at least 12-13 days. This is the usual overlap when new astronauts and cosmonauts come on board to relieve some of the members of the mission.
The film industry is quite literally reaching for the stars, with the forthcoming launch of the world's first entertainment studio and multi-purpose arena in space.
In the future when you look up at the ISS you are looking at a Space Station and movie studio.
Oh, you didn't realize you could see the ISS from Earth. But, of course, you can.
Watch the International Space Station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations. It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up. Visible to the naked eye, it looks like a fast-moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster! How fast is the space station travelling? The ISS circles the Earth every 90 minutes. It travels at about 17,500 miles (28,000 km) per hour, which gives the crew 16 sunrises and sunsets every day. Because the world is rotating below it, that means the ISS doesn't even pass over the same spot every 90 minutes. So a few orbits would look like the below picture. Each orbit will be about 22.5 degrees west of the previous orbit. In the more than 15 years that people have been living onboard, the Station has circumnavigated the Earth tens of thousands of times.
Spot The Station will give you a list of upcoming space station sighting opportunities for your location. Read More . Several times a week, Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX, determines sighting opportunities for over 6,700 locations worldwide.
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