Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Texas Instruments Inc.
- Summary
- NASA had these computer chips available for use with the IMAX camera in the payload bay of the space shuttle on seven missions in the 1980s and 1990s. The camera was used to capture film footage for four IMAX productions. Perhaps the most notable use of the camera was to film the deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope during STS-31 in 1990, footage was also used in the IMAX films Destiny in Space (1994) and Hubble 3D (2010).
- To permit remote control camera, these computer chips were each programed for different focal lengths so a command could be sent to the camera to make changes during filming.
- Gift of the IMAX Corporation in 2011.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the IMAX Corporation
- Inventory Number
- A20120259004
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Plastic
- Synthetic
- Paper
- Coating
- Steel
- Ceramic
- Aluminum
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Plastic Box): 10.2 × 12.1 × 3.8cm (4 × 4 3/4 × 1 1/2 in.)
- 3-D (Larger Chips): 3.2 × 1.6 × 1cm (1 1/4 × 5/8 × 3/8 in.)
- 3-D (Small Chips): 1.5 × 1.9 × 0.8cm (5/8 × 3/4 × 5/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Taiwan
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20120259004
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv978a37c15-de3c-4375-ac07-6d931b80e710
