Tour of International Space Station (Fascinating)

Youtube (NASA) ^ | Nov 19, 2012 | Sunita Williams

[aquila48]

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.

[aquila48]

Brings back fond memories from the early space age when I looked forward with eager anticipation to the launch of every new space module. I miss those days.

[left that other site]

I have a wonderful memory of seeing the Destiny Lab Module just before it was loaded into the Shuttle for delivery to the ISS. That was before 9/11, so NASA was very open minded about where we visited at the Space Center.

[knarf]

I've never seen the inside before, let alone get an informative and guided tour by a pretty lady.

THAT was so kool !

[bicyclerepair]

AWESOME !

[no-s]

I like the way she demonstrated her facility with zero-gee, for example her ability to position herself in the bunk in any orientation and her ability to hop from bunk to bunk with such ease and agility.

I remember examining test articles at NASA Ames and MFC and the sleeping spaces seemed incredibly tiny, more like drawers.

[fnord]

very cool.

she looks and sounds like that scientist on Big Bang who used to play Rosanne’s youngest daughter.

[fnord]

APOD list worthy

[SunkenCiv]

>APOD list worthy

Good idea, thanks fnord!

[martin_fierro]

[Yardstick]

She does a great job with the tour.