DREAMTiME (DREAMTiME)
Research Area: Educational Demonstrations
Expedition(s): 3
Principal Investigator(s): ● Ben Mason, Dreamtime Holdings Inc, Moffett Field,
California
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
DREAMTiME supplies high definition television video cameras and obtains high-quality video
footage of activities on the International Space Station (ISS) for commercial, historical, training,
educational, and public-interest use.
EARTH BENEFITS
Ownership of the imagery collected during flight is divided between NASA and DREAMTiME. As
for the success of the mission, all HDTV hardware performed as expected, and the crew
collected historical footage that is far beyond the
initial imagery expectations. The footage includes
imagery of Human Life Sciences, life on ISS, ISS
structures, Earth views, and STS docking, and is
irreplaceable in its enhancement to the NASA
archives.
SPACE BENEFITS
This new video recording technology can document
future long-duration exploration missions. HDTV can
provide improved imagery for spacecraft surveys
while inflight.RESULTS
In developing the original public-private partnership,
NASA had hoped that DREAMTiME would play a role
in developing commercial products based on the
historic activities on ISS. Lacking commercial
direction from DREAMTiME, yet recognizing the historical significance of activities on the
station, NASA took the initiative and developed scenarios and created storyboards for the flight
crew to record ISS documentary footage of outstanding quality during the mission. The result of
this effort returned over 500 minutes of HDTV footage, suitable for commercial purposes, and
far exceeding the expected imagery return. The private company that originally sponsored
DREAMTiME was short-lived, and no results were generated. The Bioastronautics Research
Program has created the video Secrets of Science in Outer Space using some of the
DREAMTiME footage.
This investigation is complete and all results are published.
ISS003E 5826 — Cosmonaut Vladimir N.
Dezhurov, Expedition 3 flight engineer, works with
camera equipment in the Zvezda service module.