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Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Saturday, June 11, 2011 12:00 PM
This video from NASA is fascinating in its own right, but I love the reflection it inspires in Msgr. Charles Pope.
It reminds me of a quasi-religious experience I had last Memorial Day when, following the parade on the Mall, I took the kids to the National Air & Space Museum to see Hubble 3-D.
The film is a window simultaneously into two worlds: the practical and precision world of all that goes into an astronautical mission; and the vast universe they explore.
You see a man hovering in space to repair a lens and nothing at all binds him to his spacecraft but a small tether, and the slightest tear to his glove—the kind of thing you wouldn’t give a thought to during an earth-based repair—will create a vacuum that will take his life within seconds.
Hanging there, the immense and beautiful earth behind him, you have a sense of how puny man is—and yet the fact that he is there and we can see him is a testimony to his greatness at the same time.
The film also shows us some of what Hubble actually sees: such as a glimpse into a star nursery galaxies and galaxies away from the Milky Way. The universe is more vast than I ever knew, and man is both more fragile and more awesome a creation than I knew!
Msgr. Pope finds not only something wondrous, but also something quite humorous all of this: click on over!
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See if you can find an MP3 of the Up with People song, Moonrider. It was written based on the journal of Astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon. It is absolutely a beautiful and powerful song. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
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