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Good Night Oppy (Prime) is a beautiful documentary directed by Ryan White, combining archive footage, new interviews and a magnificent vision of Mars by the wizards of @ILMVFX
The story of Opportunity, which was supposed to last 90 sols but lasted 5,352, is thrilling and...
@ILMVFX ...and sometimes even moving.

Because we quickly understand why engineers and scientists have considered her a member of the family, and at the end of the film, Oppy quickly joins the pantheon of cinema robots. Except that she existed and is still alone on Mars.
@ILMVFX The documentary highlights not only the technical exploit but also the scientific one, especially what Oppy and her twin Spirit brought to science and knowledge.
A film not to be missed!

#oppy #opportunity #science #nasa #rover #ilm #mars
@ILMVFX Nice work @ryanwhiteIV
@ILMVFX @ryanwhiteIV Don't worry, there are a lot of spaceships lol
@ILMVFX @ryanwhiteIV And what is very touching, too, is that young people passionate about the arrival of the rovers on Mars in 2004 were working on the same mission a decade later.

Nice movie for an awesome story (with some tense scenes).

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There was The Astronauts (2020). There was Space Cases (1996), with Firefly's Jewel Staite (ans appearances of George Takei & Mark Hamill). There was SpaceCamp (1986).


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And these are the ones that come to me from memory, without looking at my notes. There must be other stories, including lots of novels.

Because it's a solid basis for a story in space. What's important is how it's told.

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Showrunner Rockne O'Bannon: "Looking back, there's been a lot of conjecture about bringing..." Image
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[Thread] Star Trek Into Darkness (2013): The office of Admiral Alexander Marcus and a history of (space) flight

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