On board the ISS

[Exfso (Peter)]

Not sure if anyone has posted this, but even if so, it is well worth looking at even if duplicated.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/doN4t5NKW-k

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Nice one

[DavidTrap (David)]

Way cool

DT

[spathira (Sumith)]

An excellent videoclip on iss

[batema (Mark)]

How much fun does that look.

[Paul Haese]

Man there is so much clutter up there. Not sure I could handle the mess, much less the confinement. Very interesting presentation though.

[Varangian (John)]

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Man there is so much clutter up there. Not sure I could handle the mess, much less the confinement. Very interesting presentation though.

Agreed. It would be cool for a day though. Hasn't sat down for six months, it would feel so weird back on Earth after a six month mission up there.

And what is that incessant hum coming from the station? That would drive me crazy.

[deanm (Dean)]

Because there is no convection in micro-gravity, air circulates very poorly.

Hence the need for multiple pumps and extensive ducting.

Apparently, the sleeping units each have a fan to keep the air moving - otherwise the crew can wake up gasping for air as an exhaled bubble of high CO2 content air can accumulate around the head!

Yikes!

Dean

[Pinwheel (Doug)]

Funny, you would think with the fans pushing air all around the air would speed up so fast you would create a micro cyclone...

[alistairsam]

That is pretty cool. It is so cramped, you wouldn't think they'd fit in.
would be nice to view in a big movie screen

[leon]

Excellent, sure is messy alright, but how much fun would that be for a week or so.

Leon

[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

Amazing!!

[leon]

I know this has been here a long time but I enjoy watching it so much, to the point I have done that twice in the last two two days.
No I'm not bored, it just fascinates me how this happens

Leon

[PCH (Paul)]

Wow, - it's a long way from the 'walking around' lifestyle of the USS Enterprise hey?

[Multiverse (Grant)]

A very interesting tour with some good explanations of equipment. Including the answers to the most common question from the public to astronauts (you could call it the 'number 1' and 'number 2' question) of toilet usage!

[AndyG (Andy)]

Originally Posted by deanm

Because there is no convection in micro-gravity, air circulates very poorly.

Hence the need for multiple pumps and extensive ducting.

Apparently, the sleeping units each have a fan to keep the air moving - otherwise the crew can wake up gasping for air as an exhaled bubble of high CO2 content air can accumulate around the head!

Yikes!

Dean

Far out, I never thought of that! She's right about the "no up/down" due to no frame of reference. 1 minute into the sleeping chamber tour, it looks like she's standing up, but no - she's on the "floor".

My biggest fear would be bumbing something that's important. Cables here, laptop there, don't bump that button... too late