The line comes during the virtuosic unbroken 17-minute take that opens the film, in which the pair are attempting to update the Hubble telescope's sensory equipment, and their visors reflect the corona of the sun as it spreads around the curvature of the Earth.
"It was a picture of a helmet with the visor down, and a plane reflected in the visor," Mr. Bruckheimer said of the crystallizing image, which needed a crack advertising man like Tony Scott to sell it.
Visors in space reflect sunlight, and thus would be opaque, in contrast to their transparency of the helmets in the film.
Reflected in his visor, Earth in all its shimmering glory.
The Olympic rings on the road on the finish line are reflected in his visor.
Professor Fuchs is a pioneer in the creation of precursors to these glasses: large, head-mounted display systems — worn, for example, by soldiers who use them to see information like a map reflected on the visor of a helmet.
Many called the pic, which featured Earth and the ISS reflected in his visor, the best selfie ever.
The shroud of Turin floats through space to the dark side of the moon where, reflected in an astronaut's visor is … well, I can't actually make it out.
Always wear light colors to reflect heat and wear baseball hats or visors to protect your eyes.
The Kepi was not specified until the 1862 Regulations, as a sky-blue kepi, reflecting the Infantry Corps, with a dark blue band, and leather visor.
