MetaFilter posts tagged with ISS

This is Commander Chris to Ground Control

maudlin — Sun, 12 May 2013 15:18:40 -0800

Today. the day after astronauts detected and repaired a "serious but not life-threatening" ammonia leak on the space station, Commander Chris Hadfield has passed over command of the space station. Planet earth is blue and there's nothing left to do ... except to release this video. Sorry, Tilda Swinton does not make an appearance. Video is suitable for all audiences. Hadfield previously on MeFi.

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space

Artw — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:18:03 -0800

Spacewalk in Oculus Rift. Vs. teaser trailer for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity.

Watching the world go by from orbit

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:49:29 -0800

Serene and hypnotizing video of a Russian Progress spacecraft docking with the International Space Station.

"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.

Antimatter. It's out there.

CheeseDigestsAll — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:44:30 -0800

A number of headlines have proclaimed the detection of "dark matter" today, but Science News has a more measured take. What we do know is that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer riding aboard the ISS has detected positrons at high energy. Some theorists suggests that dark matter collisions would generate these positrons, but dark matter annihilation should also produce antiprotons, gamma rays and radio waves, which have not yet been observed. Since dark matter is suspected to account for far more of the universe than ordinary matter, the AMS data is a tantalizing hint of what we might learn.

To Boldly Design....

The Whelk — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:13:06 -0800

Artist/designer Shepard Fairey was commissioned the Center For The Advancement Of Science In Space to design a brand new patch for the International Space Station's ARK 1 (Advancing Researching Knowledge) mission. CASIS's Pat O'Neill unveiling the patch and the ARK 1 proposal.

Swimming with Spacemen

get off of my cloud — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:27:24 -0800

How astronauts train for spacewalks in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory bonus spacefun: Canadarm2 simulator.

Gorgeous photos of earth tweeted from the International Space Station

gingerbeer — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:29:47 -0800

Commander Chris Hadfield (previously!) and Thomas Marshburn are tweeting photos they are taking from the ISS. Hadfield, in particular, is tweeting amazing shots of islands, geographic features, brushfires in Australia, and daily life on the ISS. He's got a lot of photos of his native Canada, as well as a little outer-space rooting for his favorite hockey team. The Canadian Space Agency has a Chris Hadfield World Tour Photo Challenge More details on some of his photos and the mission: Astronaut Snaps Amazing Photo of Volcanoes from Space Chris Hadfield aims to inspire 'global awareness' from space

Space jam

bwerdmuller — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:27:32 -0800

Jewel in the Night is the first song recorded on the International Space Station. Colonel Chris Hadfield's companions in space are both also musicians.

Check out my space station crib

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:34:12 -0800

Astronaut, and Expedition 33 Commander, Sunita Williams gives a tour of the International Space Station.

"It's definitely a wide-angle view"

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:22:18 -0800

Don Pettit, famed International Space Station photographer, gives an interesting talk at Luminance 2012 about the opportunities and difficulties of shooting aboard a space station.

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.

I lost my heart to a ...

Wordshore — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 09:03:21 -0800

Sarah Brightman, multi-million selling singer, actress and songwriter, has taken her medical and will soon start training to become the 7th or 8th 'Space Tourist', visiting the ISS in 2015. More from BBC news. It is possible the media will make much reference to Sarah's most well known song.

Launching and catching Dragons

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 07:40:58 -0800

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday morning, after a slightly problematic launch on Sunday. Following on the successful test flight in May, this mission marks the first official supply run to the ISS by a private company. SpaceX is also working on the capability to send humans to the ISS, slated to occur in 3 or 4 years. Meanwhile, other American companies are also working on being able to send resupply missions to the ISS. Orbital Sciences Corporation plans to send its unmanned Cygnus spacecraft to the ISS in early 2013. The Sierra Nevada Corporation continues testing the Dream Chaser, a manned spacecraft. As for NASA, its focused on deep space missions and continues to develop the Orion Spacecraft.

9/11 from space

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:00:33 -0800

"It's horrible to see smoke pouring from wounds in your own country from such a fantastic vantage point." Astronaut Frank Culbertson's reflections as he orbited the Earth on Sept. 11th, 2001.

"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.

All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...

indubitable — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:06:42 -0800

Earth, as seen from the International Space Station

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

the scientist, the poet, the primitive seer, the watcher of fire and shooting stars

xod — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:15:51 -0800

Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit relayed some information about photographic techniques used to achieve the images: “My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”

Physics Demos that are Out of this World

quin — Thu, 31 May 2012 07:19:15 -0800

Science off the Sphere is a video series by Don Pettit aboard the ISS showing off the neat things you can do in zero-gravity. 1.) Bistro-nauts 2.) Dancing Droplets 3.) Thin Film Physics 4.) Lenses and Vortices 5.) Fun with Antibubbles (antibubbles) 6.) Earth in Infrared 7.) Space Soundwaves 8.) Goo! Bonus: Barry White and a non-Newtonian fluid [Don Pettit previously]

A Dragon Approaches

jquinby — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:12:28 -0800

NASA's Image of the Day: Dragon on approach to the ISS (SIL) "This image of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft as it approached the space station was taken NASA astronaut Don Pettit. The SpaceX Falcon 9 and its Dragon spacecraft launched on Tuesday, May 22, at 3:44 a.m. EDT."

Astronaut with a camera - an amazing combination

quin — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:00:51 -0800

Dutch astronaut and physician André Kuipers brought his camera aboard the International Space Station and took some photos in his spare time, the results are breathtaking. Buzzfeed picked out some of the most spectacular, though there are many more in the photostream worth checking out (including one of my favorites): • The Richat Structure in Mauritania • Paris at night • From space I wish you all a very exciting and colorful year! • Veins' in the Somalian desert • Over the Tibetan plateau with the Himilayas, Butan and Napal in the background • Denmark with Copenhagen, Norway with Oslo, Sweden with Stockholm in the distance, northern Germany and beyond. And the Aurora Borealis of course • Beautiful reflection of the Sun in a Brazilian river • (Airplanes 242 miles below.) On their way to America • Over the Southern Lights between Antarctic and Australia • Sahara sand treks hundreds of kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean • Sea ice spirals near Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia • The different layers of the atmosphere can be seen during sunrise and sunset • Detail strong winds at White Sands • Sunlight reflects in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas. Corsica, Sardinia and northern Italy • Sahara sand pattern • Snowy Canada. River or a millipede? • Wave pattern in the Indian Ocean. I wonder if they are above or below the water surface and how tall they are • Lake Powell and Colorado River. Awesome place. Green warm water, white/red rocks, blue sky. And nobody around • Meteor crater in Canada • The Alps look very tempting, but I don't have my skis with me... • The moon looks the same from the ISS as it does on Earth. Only we see it rise and set again and again. • A year ago I saw it from a plane and tweeted that I wanted to see these colours from space. Here it is. Salt Lake City. • Sahara sand pattern. • The Earth by night. • ISS Commander Dan Burbank @astrocoastie has an eye for beautiful cloud formations • Aircraft make patterns in the sky • How we see the moon. Sharp and slowly moving towards or away from the horizon • The Pacific is a great source of colourful images. One of the Gilbert Islands • Africa meets Europe - Strait of Gibraltar • Foam clouds • For an experiment I had to be quiet for 10 min, so I looked out the window. And saw an active Etna • Australia is an extraordinary continent with beautiful structures • Comet Lovejoy by Cdr Dan Burbank @astrocoastie, on launch day. One of the first who spotted it

Got The Space Station Blues, with apologies to musicians everywhere

nickyskye — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:11:41 -0800

Learning his return to Earth from the International Space Station might be delayed for possibly up to two months, NASA astronaut Ron Garan sings the blues from the Soyuz spacecraft that will take him home. Eventually. ISS previously and previously The members of the Expedition 28 in order of appearance: Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, Andrey Borisenko, Alexander (Sasha) Samokutyaev, Sergei Volkov and Ron Garan Update: Ron, Andrey and Sasha safely returned to Earth Friday, Sept. 16, 2011.

ISS Owner's Manual

bitmage — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:25:54 -0800

The International Space Station is a complex place, with loads of gear packed into its 916 cubic meters of pressurized volume. SpaceRef has an assortment of detailed technical documents describing everything from basic operations to emergency procedures. For a general overview, see the excellent NASA ISS Reference Guide (pdf).

Its KNITTING needles

ShawnString — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:20:48 -0800

Water Drops, Knitting Needles, and the ISS (SLYT)