FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 6, 2025
Space's next golden age blasts off in Space: The New Frontier
New OMNIMAX® film opens March 14 at Cincinnati Museum Center
CINCINNATI - A second golden age of space has quietly dawned, giving new hope for humanity as a spacefaring species. Space: The New Frontier, a new film made for the OMNIMAX® Theater, goes behind the scenes of some of the most promising space technologies and missions of our time, giving you a first look into the not-so-distant future. Space: A New Frontier opens in Cincinnati Museum Center’s Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater on March 14. 
In the quest to make human spaceflight accessible within a decade, not a century, and ultimately affordable to ordinary citizens, leading innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers and daredevils are racing toward the unknown. From self-assembling habitats, commercial space stations and launching rockets without fuel to building the Lunar Gateway to deep space, Space: The New Frontier captures history in the making. Filmed in 8K for the OMNIMAX® screen, there’s nothing like being in the front seat and feeling the theater vibrate from the launch of Artemis I.
“Space: The New Frontier is a film about history in the making. As the stunning imagery and innovations surround you, it quite literally challenges you to look up at what can, and will, be,” said Dave Duszynski, vice president of featured experiences at Cincinnati Museum Cetner. “The future astronauts, rocket scientists and engineers who may take us to Mars and beyond will soon trade the OMNIMAX® Theater for outer space. This new dawn of space exploration is just beginning.”
It feels as though science fiction is turning into science reality, and the film’s narrator is none other than Star Trek’s Captain Kirk – Chris Pine.
“I remember seeing these shows [in] IMAX when I was a kid so to be a part of it is a real blessing, and I can’t wait to inspire kids,” said Pine, a supporter of Children’s Hospital and The Orchid Foundation, a mentorship and scholarship program for underserved girls. Pine’s credits also include Wonder Woman, Hell or High Water, Don’t Worry Darling and the feature film Poolman, which marked his directorial debut.
Also among the film’s stars are real life astronaut Victor Glover and space architect Ariel Ekblaw. Glover will become the first Black man to fly around the Moon while piloting only the second crewed flight to the Moon since the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago. MIT alum Ekblaw is co-founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute, a nonprofit space architecture R&D lab, education and outreach center and policy hub dedicated to building humanity’s future in space.
To learn more about Space: The New Frontier and to view the trailer and showtimes, visit cincymuseum.org/space-the-new-frontier.
Space: The New Frontier is from the executive producers of Journey to Space, a Giant Screen classic that reached an audience of more than six million viewers across 140 institutional theaters worldwide, including Cincinnati Museum Center’s OMNIMAX® Theater.
Space: The New Frontier is produced by Definition Studios Australia and distributed by K2 Studios in IMAX®/Giant Screen and other specialty theaters located in science centers, museums and other cultural destinations and attractions worldwide.
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About Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) at Union Terminal is a nationally recognized, award-winning institution housed in a National Historic Landmark. CMC is a vital community resource that sparks curiosity, inspiration, epiphany and dialogue. CMC was awarded the 2009 National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and received accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums in 2012, one of a select few museums in the nation to receive both honors. Organizations within CMC include the Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, The Children’s Museum, Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater, Cincinnati History Library and Archives and the Geier Collections and Research Center. Housed in historic Union Terminal – a National Historic Landmark restored in 2018 and recognized as the nation’s 45th most important building by the American Institute of Architects – CMC welcomes more than 1.8 million visits annually, making it one of the most visited museums in the country. For more information, visit cincymuseum.org.
