ESA’s anniversary DVD film “Hubble - 15 years of discovery” covers all aspects of the Hubble Space Telescope project – a journey through the history, the troubled early life and the ultimate scientific successes of Hubble. This portrait, directed by Lars Lindberg Christensen, contains large amounts of previously unpublished footage of superb quality. With more than 500,000 copies distributed, this DVD movie is probably the most widely available science documentary ever.

Hubble's spectacular visual images make a stunning backdrop throughout the film, bringing an immediacy and vitality as the narrative reveals the new insights Hubble has inspired in all fields of astronomy from exoplanets to black holes. Complex though the science behind the telescope’s images often is, Art Director Martin Kornmesser has developed a unique style of elaborate 3D animation that enhances and vividly clarifies the underlying science.

The movie is presented by an ESA scientist, Dr. Robert (Bob) Fosbury, who has himself used Hubble for his own research on many occasions.

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Movie Credits

This movie is dedicated to all the hard working people in USA and Europe who have made the Hubble Space Telescope an incredible scientific success


Executive producer/director
Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESA/ESO

Art director/production designer
Martin Kornmesser, ESA/ESO

3D animations & rendering & DVD Authoring
Martin Kornmesser, ESA/ESO
Cornel Swoboda, ESA/ESO

Written by
Stefania Varano
Lars Lindberg Christensen, ESA/ESO
Stuart Clark

Editing
Martin Kornmesser, ESA/ESO

Cinematographer
Peter Rixner

Music composed by
movetwo - Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler
Vocals: Axel Kornmesser & Audrey Quinn

Sound Effects
movetwo - Axel Kornmesser & Markus Löffler

Sound engineering and Mix
Peter Rixner, www.perix.de

Lead scientist
Bob Fosbury, ESA/ESO

Stunt coordinator
Britt Sjöberg, ESO/ESA

English Narration
Bob Fosbury & Howard Cooper

German Narration
Bernd Bundschu & Achim Höppner

Greek Narration
Manolis Zoulias & Dionysios Simopoulos

Italian Narration
e-ducation.it


Movie Translations

BULGARIAN
Mariya Lyubenova (Astronomical association – Sofia, Bulgaria)

DANSK
Anne Værnholt Olesen (Voksenuddannelsescenter Frederiksberg)

NEDERLANDS
Eddy Echternach (freelance, The Netherlands)

SUOMI
Silva Järvinen (University of Oulu, Finland)

FRANÇAIS
Celine Peroux (European Southern Observatory)

DEUTSCH
Arntraud Bacher (University Innsbruck, Austria)

GREEK
Manolis Zoulias (Academy of Athens, Greece)

ITALIANO
Stefania Varano (Italian National Research Council, Italy)

NORSK
Margrethe Wold (European Southern Observatory)

PORTUGUÊS
Mariana Barrosa, António Pedrosa, Pedro Russo (Centro Multimeios de Espinho)

RUSSIAN
Olga Tsiopa (Pulkovo Observatory, Russia)

ESPAÑOL
Eva Carballeira, Pedro Russo (Fundação Navegar – Portugal), Francesc
Vilardell (Universitat de Barcelona)

SVENSKA
Martin Lundqvist (Lund Observatory, Sweden)

POLSKI
Jacek Szubiakowski, Ewa Janaszak and Boguslaw Kulesza (Olsztynskie Planetarium)


Partners
Academy of Athens
Eugenides Planetarium
Eleftherotypia
Hamburg Planetarium
Sterne und Weltraum
Astronomie Heute
New Scientist
ESPACE magazine
Expresso
Tycho Brahe Planetarium
Danish National Space Center
Politiken
Ursa Astronomical Association
The Finnish National Technology Agency
Centro Multimeios de Espinho
Fundação Navegar
Le Stelle
Zeiss Planetarium Vienna
SDC
Armagh Planetarium
DeKoepel
Veen Magazines

Thanks to
Adobe® Systems
American Institute of Physics/Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Dorothy Davis Locanthi Collection
Hale Observatories
Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt-Museum
MAXON Computer
NASA
Physics Today and Fermi Film Collections
Princeton University Library
Sky and Telescope
Sky-Skan
Space Telescope Science Institute
Spitzer Science Centre
Ulster Planetarium


In particular thanks to
Greg Bacon (STScI/NASA)
Lars Bachmann (SDC)
Dimitri Bogdanov (Voksenuddannelsescenter Frederiksberg)
Cornelia Borrmann (Deutsche Welle)
John Dubinski (University of Toronto/CITA)
John Kameel Farah
Jane Fletcher (BBC)
Claus Habfast (ESA)
Peter Habison (Wien Planetarium)
Robert Hill (Armagh Planetarium)
April Hobart (NASA/CXC)
Robert Hurt (NASA/SSC)
Thomas Kraupe (Hamburg Planetarium)
Zolt Levay (NASA/STScI)
Loch Ness Productions
Mariya Lyubenova (Astronomical association – Sofia, Bulgaria)
Audrey Quinn
Susanne Radman (Wien Planetarium)
Anne Rhodes
Pedro Russo (Centro Multimeios de Espinho, Portugal)
Sasa Stanojcic (www.designliga.com)
Frank Summers (NASA/STScI)
Taho (www.lumina.ws)
Aline Tsiopa
Manolis Zoulias (Academy of Athens, Greece)

And of course: our girlfriends and families!

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.