Astronaut Press Release ( PDF | 301k)
Astronaut teaches viewers about the long and arduous training process astronauts must undergo before they can live and work in the extreme environment of space.
In Astronaut, viewers learn how the spacesuits astronauts wear protect the body from extreme temperatures, electromagnetic radiation, cosmic rays, the vacuum of space and many other
dangers.
Details of the space shuttle are painstakingly studied and duplicated by artists before they are digitally animated in Astronaut.
Each detail of the space shuttle, right down to the texture of the tiles that cover the spacecraft, are faithfully re-created in the digital animations of Astronaut.
In Astronaut, an animated character named Chad is the guinea pig who is subjected to all the perils that astronauts face in space.
Chad, an animated astronaut-in-training, experiences the damaging effects of gamma radiation in Astronaut, the new show at Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Many of the Museum’s educational programs and exhibits are made possible in part by generous funding from the citizens of the seven-county metro area through the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District.
Astronaut Image Captions and Credits
All images ©National Space Science Centre, England.
