The Dream Is Alive
8 /10 1 Votes
Director Graeme Ferguson Writer Toni Myers | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 1, 1985 (1985-06-01) Initial DVD release November 14, 2001 (Sweden) Cast Similar movies Interstellar , The Martian , Mission to Mir , Origins of Life , Blue Planet , Destiny in Space |
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The Dream is Alive is an IMAX movie, released in June 1985, about NASA's Space Shuttle program. The film was narrated by Walter Cronkite, and directed by Graeme Ferguson.
Contents
- Trailer the dream is alive
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- Synopsis
- Challenger disaster
- Release
- References

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Synopsis
The movie includes scenes from numerous shuttle missions, beginning with the dawn landing of Discovery at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility upon the conclusion of STS-51-A. A composite shot, the finished sequence is composed of footage from Discovery's landing, radio transmissions from Challenger's 1984 landing on STS-41-B, and runway approach footage filmed from a fixed-wing aircraft.
Mission STS-41-C, the 11th for the shuttle program and the fifth for Challenger is featured most heavily, beginning with the deployment of the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite. The capture and repair of the Solar Max satellite also receives a great deal of coverage, including a detailed overview of training for the mission in a large pool at NASA. This particular mission is of interest, as the first attempt at capturing the satellite failed, and a second attempt almost 12 hours later had to be made. That portion of the mission was a success, with the satellite being brought to the payload bay on the next attempt, and was repaired quickly by astronauts James van Hoften and George Nelson. Other STS 41-C mission activities included a student experiment located in a middeck locker to determine how honeybees make honeycomb cells in a microgravity environment.
Other shuttle missions are interspersed during the feature with the STS-41-C footage. Highlights include:
Additionally, a small amount of time is also dedicated to other aspects of the shuttle program, including:
Challenger disaster
The movie was produced and shot 15–18 months before the Challenger disaster, and includes appearances by two astronauts who died in the accident; Francis Scobee and Judith Resnik. Challenger itself is featured prominently in the film. Many of the themes and tone of the documentary regarded the normalization of travel to space using the shuttle while giving only passing mention to the dangers. The Challenger disaster would dramatically curtail this belief and subsequent experience would show that the shuttle would not make space travel more accessible or affordable.
Release
The Dream Is Alive was released on DVD (pictured), and in high definition as a bonus feature on the Blue Planet Blu-ray in 2007.
References
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