Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2013–2015.
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In her final days as ISS commander, Sunita Williams gives an extensive tour of the station's modules and research facilities, narrating the work done aboard.
Recommended as a great, understandable tour of life and equipment aboard the International Space Station.
“There's a great 25 minute tour of the ISS by Sunita Williams on NASA's YouTube channel”
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There's a great 25 minute tour of the ISS by Sunita Williams on NASA's YouTube channel along with commentary on how life works up there. ▶ this video
in “What it's like to live on the International Space Station” · View on HN
This is awesome. If you'd like a live video tour, I recently sat down with my 5 year old to watch a wonderful video from NASA [0]. They talk about some of the facilities in a way that kids can understand, and there's something wondrous about seeing how they move around, regularly changing their orientations, etc. [0] ▶ this video
in “ISS Virtual Tour” · View on HN
Why no 2001-style rotating orbital station? Probably because it's not easy, it'll be big and heavy, and Big and Heavy and Orbital is definitely not cheap. Moving mass — people moving around — within a rotating structure will transmit vibrations throughout the structure, even with mass dampening. As an example of the considerations around vibrations within ISS, astronaut Sunita Williams indicated that the ISS exercise equipment is intentionally isolated from the ISS structure, as the vibrations of the crew members exercising causes problems for the solar arrays. Source: ▶ this video
in “Study shows space travel is harmful to the brain” · View on HN