Journey to Palomar Americas First Journey Into Space (2010)

The film traces the story of the Chicagoborn astronomer George Ellery Hale considered the father of astrophysics as he struggles personally and professionally to build the greatest telescopes of the 20th century at the Yerkes and Mount Wilson Observatories and finally the 20year effort to build the millionpound telescope on Palomar mountain beginning in the 1930s Hales observatories revolutionized our understanding of the universe