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Director of photography John Schwartzman at the base of a "locked and loaded" shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center. The cameraman notes, "In one respect, NASA is of the highest technical order, but like everybody else, they're working within very strict budget restraints." Administration officials were very impressed by some of the cameraman's lighting gear: "They loved the fact that we brought all of this new technology to them. Our technology is much more current that NASA's. Anybody there would admit it. For example, the shuttle itself is a 1970s design. My PowerBook laptop is more powerful than any single computer in the firing room [where shuttle launches are coordinated]. It's just that all of their systems run perfectly, and look really cool."