Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Space Shuttle Explorer, commanded by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, is in Earth's on Mission STS-157 to service the. Ryan Stone is aboard on her first space mission as a mission specialist, to perform a set of hardware upgrades on the Hubble. During a, in warns Explorer 's crew about a Russian, which has inadvertently caused a forming a rapidly-expanding cloud of, and orders the crew to return to Earth immediately. Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly thereafter as more and more communication satellites are knocked out by the debris. High-speed debris strikes the Explorer and Hubble, tearing Stone from the shuttle and leaving her tumbling through space. Kowalski, using a (MMU), rescues Stone, and they return to the Explorer, where they discover that the shuttle has suffered catastrophic damage, and the rest of the crew are dead.

Advanced microprocessor and peripherals pdf free download. Stone and Kowalski decide to use the MMU to reach the (ISS), which is in orbit about 1,450 km (900 mi) away. Kowalski estimates that they have 90 minutes before the debris field completes an orbit and threatens them again. On their way to the ISS, the two discuss Stone's home life and her daughter, who died young in an accident. As they approach the station, they see that the ISS's crew has evacuated into one of its two, and the remaining Soyuz's parachute has been prematurely deployed, rendering it unable to return to Earth.

Kowalski suggests using it to travel to the nearby Chinese space station, 100 km (60 mi) away, in order to board its and return safely to Earth via the re-entry. Out of air and maneuvering fuel, the two try to grab onto the ISS; Stone's leg gets entangled in the Soyuz's parachute cords, and she grabs a strap on Kowalski's suit, but it soon becomes clear that the cords will not support them both.

Despite Stone's protests, Kowalski detaches himself from the tether to save Stone from drifting away with him. Stone is pulled back towards the ISS, while Kowalski floats away. He continues to communicate with her, calming her and encouraging her to press on and return home, until he eventually drifts out of communications range. Stone enters the space station via the of the. She cannot re-establish communication with Kowalski nor with Earth, and concludes that she is now the sole survivor.

Inside the station, a fire breaks out, forcing her to rush to the Soyuz. As she maneuvers the Soyuz away from the ISS, the tangled parachute tethers snag, preventing the spacecraft from leaving. Stone performs a spacewalk to cut the cables, succeeding just as the debris field returns, destroying the station. Stone angles the Soyuz towards Tiangong, but soon discovers that the Soyuz's engine has no fuel. After a poignant attempt at radio communication with an on Earth, Stone resigns herself to her fate and shuts down the cabin's oxygen supply to commit suicide. As she begins to lose, Kowalski enters the capsule, scolding her for giving up. He tells her to rig the Soyuz's to propel the capsule toward Tiangong, then disappears.

Realizing Kowalski's appearance was an hallucination, Stone regains the will to go on, restores the spacecraft's oxygen flow, and rigs the landing rockets to propel the capsule towards Tiangong. Unable to dock with Tiangong, Stone ejects herself from the Soyuz and uses a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel to the rapidly deorbiting Tiangong. She manages to enter Tiangong 's Shenzhou spacecraft just as the station enters the upper and unlocks its re-entry capsule just in time. The capsule re-enters the atmosphere successfully; however, during the descent it is damaged by debris from the disintegrating Tiangong, and a fire starts inside the capsule. The capsule lands in a lake, but dense smoke forces Stone to evacuate immediately after, shed her spacesuit, and swim ashore. After watching the remains of the Tiangong re-enter Earth, and thanking Kowalski one last time, Stone shakily takes her first steps back on land.

Office exterior in London, March 2014, after Gravity wins Visual effects were supervised by at the London-based VFX company, which was responsible for creating most of the film's visual effects—except for 17 shots. Framestore was also heavily involved in the art direction and, along with The Third Floor, the. Tim Webber stated that 80 percent of the film consisted of CGI—compared to James Cameron's (2009), which was 60 percent CGI. To simulate the authenticity and reflection of unfiltered light in space, a manually controlled lighting system consisting of 1.8 million individually controlled LED lights was built. The 3D imagery was designed and supervised by Chris Parks. The majority of the 3D was created by the CGI at Framestore. The remaining footage was in post-production—principally at Prime Focus, London, with additional conversion work by Framestore.