Comments on: ISS 2010 Tour

ISS 2010 Tour

MechEng — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:00:05 -0800

2010 International Space Station Tour - (ISS Tags)

By: Catfry

Catfry — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:04:06 -0800

It is outdated. No Node 3.

By: heyho

heyho — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:44:04 -0800

I thought it was pretty cool. I like watching astronauts floating around and smiling - so nerdy, so geeky, so wheeeeee!

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:01:29 -0800

Cool! Really cramped in there at times, but it's neat how they can store stuff anywhere, since it's a weightless environment.

By: twsf

twsf — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:06:32 -0800

Fun tour once I turned my speakers off.

By: empatterson

empatterson — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:03:02 -0800

This is super neat. I just wish it was a little newer so we could have seen the view from the Cupola in node 3. It was nice to see fellow canuck Bob Thirsk though, he's my hero :)

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:05:20 -0800

It's a lot bigger than I realized.

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:28:20 -0800

I watched this with a big goofy grin on my face the whole way through. I distinctly remember a schoolmate of mine in the early nineties dismissing the idea of the ISS as a pipedream. Now, it's up there. It's incredible really. They should do more videos like this - they're just about the best PR the various national space programmes could hope for. I know if I was a ten year old kid watching this now I'd be pretty damn up for becoming an astronaut.

By: intermod

intermod — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:06:00 -0800

That's Barry "Butch" Wilmore, pilot of STS-129, doing the tour. Another great character in the astronaut corps. Yeah, the STS-129 mission was up in Nov 2009, just before the Node 3 / Cupola delivery in Feb 2010. Here is the raw video for that tour, full HD, downloadable, MPEG4 format, 420 MB: http://www.filefront.com/14979801/sts129-fd7-hd.mp4 They do full tours like this pretty routinely, at least a couple times a year. You just have to pay attention. A good place to look is http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/ .

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:59:24 -0800

(Saw this months ago.) Wow, Wilmore was on his first orbital flight. I was watching his zero-g proficiency and giving it high marks.

By: Zack_Replica

Zack_Replica — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:17:04 -0800

We've got dual monitors at work, so I (mostly) have this picture or (sometimes) this one stretched across both. It reminds me of what wonderful things we, as human beings striving for something more, can accomplish if we stop being stupid for a few minutes.