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ISS astronaut, upon seeing the inside of the SpaceX Dragon capsule says “it looks like sci-fi”
André Kuipers, a Dutch physician and astronaut with the European Space Agency, was on board the ISS when the SpaceX Dragon vehicle berthed. He took this photograph, and wrote,
Inside of the Dragon module. Beautiful. Spacious, Modern. Blue LEDs. Feels a bit like a sci-fi filmset. Of course it is from Los Angeles.
He wrote more about the historic space milestone here, on his blog.
Last Friday was a special day on my mission. Don and I docked the SpaceX’s cargoship Dragon to the Space Station. Dragon brings new equipment for the crew. On the 31st of May it will return to Earth with supplies from the others and myself. The Dragon mission is the operational highlight of my mission. But it is also a milestone for international spaceflight. This is the first time that a commercial spacecraft has flown to the ISS and docked with the Station. You could say a new era of spaceflight has begun. Soon private companies will take people to and from space.
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posted 31 May, 2012
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The SpaceX Dragon capsule is now attached to the ISS, watch it live
The actual docking (spaceship sex) happened at around 930am EST this morning, but the UStream live feed is up, so you can see the Dragon capsule snugly attached to side of the ISS with the video link below. This is history being made, even if it looks kind of boring. Okay, so little is boring in space, but there isn’t much going on from the outside.
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posted 25 May, 2012
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Amazing photo of a robotic resupply ship docking with the ISS
This incredible photo was snapped from the International Space Station last week when the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Eduardo Amaldi docked with the orbiting outpost. The ATV can be seen in the background, with its four solar panels extended and illuminated by the spacecraft’s thrusters. Below, the eerie glow of the Earth’s atmosphere and smeared city lights provide an astounding backdrop.
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posted 07 April, 2012
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Saturday moment of zen: The stars as viewed from the International Space Station
Timelapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station. Images edited using Adobe Lightroom with some cropping to make the stars the focal point of each shot, and with manipulation of the contrast to bring out the stars a bit more.
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posted 24 March, 2012
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Astronaut builds a Lego International Space Station while aboard the real International Space Station
International Space Station astronaut Satoshi Furukawa constructed a two-foot long Lego model of the International Space Station inside the actual ISS. The process took about two hours, and the Lego ISS had to be assembled inside a sealed glovebox, so no pieces would get loose and become jammed in the station’s equipment or even become a fire hazard.
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posted 28 February, 2012
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NASA switches on its Robot Astronaut for the first time. THE BEAST AWAKENS
“Bow down, mortal meatbags”
Until this morning, NASA’s Robonaut 2 space station robot has been safely packed away in his crate. This morning, they awoke the machine for initial bootup and testing before they put him to sleep again.
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posted 14 February, 2012
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Moment of zen: Storms over Africa with the Milky Way in the background as seen from the ISS
Not only is this gorgeous, it makes me feel so very tiny in the scope of it all.
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posted 21 January, 2012
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‘Apogee of Fear’ is the first horror movie shot in space, but NASA isn’t sure if they want to release it
In 2008, British game developer Richard Garriott went to space as a space tourist, and with him, he brought a video camera to document his unique vacation. While he was on the International Space Station, he shot a short horror film called “Apogee of Fear” starring two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut. Because fuck, he paid $30 mil to get there, why not?
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posted 20 January, 2012
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Comet Lovejoy passes behind Earth for this gorgeous photo op
International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured spectacular imagery of Comet Lovejoy as seen from about 240 miles above the Earth’s horizon on Wednesday, Dec. 21.
See Commander Burbank talking about the comet here
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posted 25 December, 2011
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Evening moment of zen: Breathtaking time lapse from the ISS
City, continents, northern lights… Earth is really fucking gorgeous from high above.
Submitted by CAPTAIN A Drive
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posted 17 November, 2011
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This is what it looks like inside the International Space Station during a reboost
The International Space Station (ISS) occasionally has to boost itself into a higher altitude to counteract the effects of microgravity drag. Recently, the ISS boosted itself about two miles up, and video cameras caught what happened inside to Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov as the ISS floats away from them with them inside.
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posted 10 November, 2011
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This is what the Earth looks like flying beneath you from the ISS
Science educator James Drake took 600 still photos from the International Space Station as it orbited the Earth, and created a fantastic time-lapse animation out of them. It must be seen to be appreciated; storms and cities fly past below in amazing clarity.
If Russia can’t fix its rockets, ISS could be empty for the first time in 11 years
One of the problems of relying on a single country for transportation back and forth to the International Space Station is that if that one country is having technical difficulties, you’re sort of up shit creek without a paddle. Or a rocket. Such is the case right now, with the failure of Russia’s unmanned supply rocket that was supposed to go to the ISS. Now they’ve got to figure out what went wrong, and the clock is ticking for the astronauts aboard the station.
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posted 30 August, 2011
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Watch a Perseid meteor zip by the International Space Station
On August 10, Bryan Stewart was filming a fly-by of the International Space Station in Texas when a Perseid meteor jumped into the shot.
Oh, you want to see what the Perseid meteor shower looked like from the ISS? Here ya go.
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posted 15 August, 2011
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SpaceX to launch ISS-bound supply ship in November
Just because we don’t have a space shuttle anymore doesn’t mean that the human appetite for space travel is quelled in the least. Now begins the era of private commercial space flight, and SpaceX is spearheading that frontier. This November, SpaceX will be sending a test pod full of cargo to the ISS and bringing back home again.
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posted 31 July, 2011
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