Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine (2023)
- Directed by
- Shai Gal
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 04m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 78 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows the decades-long effort to build and launch the James Webb Space Telescope. It shows the challenges scientists and engineers overcame to get the telescope into space and unveils the first images it captured.
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What happens
Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine is an episode of the four-episode 2023 Netflix documentary series Unknown, about NASA's development and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. The episode follows the development of the telescope from the 1990s through its 2021 launch and 2022 deployment, and the unveiling of some of the first images from the new space telescope. The episode was directed by Shai Gal and released on Netflix on July 24, 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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