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one of the more fascinating things

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taking place on board the international

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space station involves a movie actually

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being made in space

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an imax film actively being shot by crew

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members on board the international space

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station showcasing not only the

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beautiful views of earth but an inside

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look at life off the earth inside the

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international space station marshall

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commentator uh laurie meigs out at the

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marshall space flight center caught up

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with the producer of the film to learn a

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little bit more

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the imax project is a film about our

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planet and our future on it and off it

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and it is being shot on the

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international space station we started

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last november and will be through

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shooting through to september of 2015 of

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this year

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well there's no better vantage point

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than the iss right that's exactly why we

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want to do it

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we have a long history imax does of

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taking pictures in orbit and this is the

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best platform we know for studying the

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changes that are occurring to our planet

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right now

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so i guess you had to train the

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astronauts to be filmmakers then we did

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and that is of course a wonderful job to

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have because they are the best learners

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in the world and very very smart and

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creative as well where are we in the

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project

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we are about a third of the way through

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our shooting

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we do other scenes on the ground as well

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but the crew is doing an absolutely

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wonderful job we're we're deluged with

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beautiful images that commander butch

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wilmore and terry verts are sending down

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now is it strictly earth images or is it

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kind of their day-to-day activities too

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both actually we have one component of

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the film which is the principal one is

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the earth fuse but we also shoot

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interiors in the station of uh the

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research that's going on especially with

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a view to long duration longer duration

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uh space flights to other planets what

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we're learning about that and we also do

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daily live scenes how crew lives in a

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closed system such as a station and also

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prox ops visiting vehicles that kind of

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thing evas

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the long history imax has had pretty

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popular how popular do you think this

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will be

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well it's my hope of course that it's

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the most popular but

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we've enjoyed an amazing success and

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that's mainly because human beings

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pretty much universally are curious

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about space and the environment around

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our planet

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things we can't see and touch that's

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correct and things that most of us can't

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experience except through the magic of

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imax did the cameras work any

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differently in microgravity have you

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learned anything about them well these

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were brand new cameras we weren't

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allowed to fly traditional cameras

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anymore because there's no up mass to

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get those great big cam well it's not so

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much the cameras it's getting filmed

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back and forth just can't do it anymore

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so these are digital cameras and we had

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not used them before either i mean other

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than testing them out in advance on the

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ground but you can only do so much

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testing and we have learned some things

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in on orbit you know things that

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surprised us that we didn't expect would

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happen that were

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good you know good things so

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it's a learning curve for both the crew

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and for us scott kelly will be uh flying

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up he's our next crew trained crew to go

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up and then after scott will be uh

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uh chellengren and uh kimia

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yui uh from japan

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we've had great fun training

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all those guys

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was butch the first that which was the

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first and butch had because he was the

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first and we were quite close to flight

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he had a very abbreviated uh training

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flow and he's just done amazing things

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he's just wonderful that boy from

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country boy from tennessee that

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bubba from tennessee as he says

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he's wonderful

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well we look forward to seeing your

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movie well i look forward to finishing

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it and showing it to you so how long do

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you think that will take like from when

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you get things down when will that well

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put it this way if i don't have

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everything done by september on orbit

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i'm in big trouble because i have to

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deliver the finished film uh into

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theaters in late spring of 2016. that

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may seem a healthy amount of time but

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when you're actually making a film it's