MetaFilter posts tagged with ISS and video

"Ring it Out"

zarq — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:29:53 -0800

Last fall, the Canadian Space Agency asked students to design a simple science experiment that could be performed in space, using items already available aboard the International Space Station. Today, Commander Chris Hadfield conducted the winner for its designers: two tenth grade students, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, in a live feed to their school in Fall River, Nova Scotia. And now, we finally have an answer to the age-old question, What Happens When You Wring Out A Washcloth In Space? Additional Videos Commander Hatfield is Canadian, and has been recording videos for the CSA from the ISS during the current mission, which they have been uploading to their YouTube channel. Playlist. The vids cover random trivia about living in space. There's also an inspirational message and a discussion or two of other experiments the astronauts have been conducting. Background * NBC's Cosmic Log: What happens when you wring out a washcloth in zero-G? Now we know. * Mashable: What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Space? * CSA Press Release Expedition 35: Photos * Commander Hadfield's Tumblr * NASA's Flickr Photo Set for Expedition 35. Previously on Metafilter * Gorgeous photos of earth tweeted from the International Space Station * Space jam Other Stuff * The Greatest Conversations To Ever Happen On Twitter Between Real Astronauts And The Cast of Star Trek * Reddit IAmA: I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently orbiting planet Earth.

Very very trippy ISS videos

pjern — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:29:06 -0800

Framestacking ISS Video. This is seriously cool, produced by running International Space Station videos though framestacking software, successively adding the images to produce trails of light. View full screen and smoke it if you got it.

"Because I'm in space, and I can, I get to name these yo-yo tricks."

OverlappingElvis — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:47:53 -0800

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit uses his off-duty time to practice his microgravity yo-yo skills.

Dancing with the Stars

insert.witticism.here — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 13:17:57 -0800

Views from the ISS at Night (Vimeo) - Knate Myers assembled this video from a series of time-lapse videos taken aboard the ISS. Plus, one of my favorite movie soundtracks! Naturally, go full-screen HD for best experience. The photos and original time-lapse videos are available from NASA-Johnson Space Center's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth (Previously) Also Previously and Previouslier

"...all I could think was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful and yet again, wonderful"

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:41:39 -0800

Between August and October this year the crew of the ISS used a special low-light HD camera to visually capture the earth as it passed beneath them. The result, edited together by Michael König and set to music, is jaw-droppingly spectacular.

It may be redundant to tell you to set Vimeo to full-screen mode before playing, but do so - you won't regret it. Post intended as something of a sequel to this. Some related channels on Vimeo: The World In HD, HDTime, Slow Motion & Timelapse Theatre.

ver·tig·i·nous

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:38:53 -0800

How does it feel to fly over planet Earth from the perspective of the ISS? A timelapse movie by James Drake, compiled from pictures drawn from the incredible Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Place the video in HD and fullscreen for the full effect. via The thin green-brown arc seen above the Earth is aerosol haze: particles suspended in the high atmosphere that are invisible from the ground but made manifest when viewed edge-on from orbit. Naturally, the ISS orbits the Earth at a more sedate pace than this movie: about 90× slower.

Video of a Tour around STS-120/ISS

brownpau — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:15:49 -0800

A tour around Discovery STS-120 and the International Space Station with Paolo Nespoli and Dr. Scott Parazynski. Tomorrow, Parazynski will be perched at the end of a robot arm and sensor boom assembly, stitching up a damaged solar array in what might be one of the riskiest EVAs since Skylab 2.