Taking a Tour through Soyuz, ISS and Space Shuttle

[Chip]

Tour through Soyuz, ISS and Space Shuttle. Very Cool! No place to "walk". Just float everywhere. This, and the narrow spaces makes me think that people with experience in Navy subs would feel at home on the ISS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=H8rHarp1GEE

[Swift]

Very cool video.

I see what you mean about a sub, it does seem almost claustrophobic. And there is stuff everywhere. Reminds me (in not a very good way) of just about every laboratory I remember working in when I was in grad school.

[schlaugh]

Das ISS...

[NEOWatcher]

Das ISS...

With the occasional Das Boost.

Cramped, but a lot bigger than I pictured in my head.

[djellison]

That's really quite cool - he rigged two cameras together, one facing him, one facing forwards. Can't wait to see someone do a real nice long one of these now Node 3 is in situ, and once the PLM is fitted.

[Chip]

Yeah - I expected the ISS module interiors to be wider - they're only a little bit wider than the connecting passage ways. Also, I've been on two submarines as a guest on "open house" tours, a vintage surviving WWII sub and a modern sub and the horizontal as well as vertical tunnels in the ISS really remind me of a large sub. Very cool video.

[ravens_cry]

Sure, it looks cramped, but damn it all, I want to go!

[Jens]

For a better virtual experience, wouldn't it be nice if they could give you an idea of the odors as well!

[JonClarke]

Funny that it looks like a lab - because that is what it is. There is no point wasting volume, so everything is packed in. Besides, if there is too much free space people could get stranded.

I won't smell, not with the air filter efficiency and the rapid air changes.

Great video.

[ravens_cry]

Funny that it looks like a lab - because that is what it is. There is no point wasting volume, so everything is packed in. Besides, if there is too much free space people could get stranded.

I won't smell, not with the air filter efficiency and the rapid air changes.

Great video.

Not to mention that people tend to get used to surrounding odours very quickly. And yes, a wonderful video. Anyone got a few spare million?

[mahesh]

Thanks for the link, Chip. Indeed, a very nice video tour.

[Clive Tester]

I saw the IMAX film of the shuttle launch/ISS- Soyuz-shuttle float through, at the London science museum a few years back. First time that I felt vertigo and claustrophobia all in one cinema sitting.

[mugaliens]

I saw the IMAX film of the shuttle launch/ISS- Soyuz-shuttle float through, at the London science museum a few years back. First time that I felt vertigo and claustrophobia all in one cinema sitting.

Ever seen the IMAX movie To Fly?

[Craigboy]

Funny that it looks like a lab - because that is what it is. There is no point wasting volume, so everything is packed in. Besides, if there is too much free space people could get stranded.

I won't smell, not with the air filter efficiency and the rapid air changes.

Great video.

This may be a stupid question but since there's air within the ISS wouldn't they be able to swim/ flutter from side to side?

Very cool video.

I see what you mean about a sub, it does seem almost claustrophobic. And there is stuff everywhere. Reminds me (in not a very good way) of just about every laboratory I remember working in when I was in grad school.

I wonder how they keep track of everything?

EDIT: Also on a completely different subject why is Kibo so quiet? Is it more advanced than the other modules or is it just far from life support equipment?

For a better virtual experience, wouldn't it be nice if they could give you an idea of the odors as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswCuvcA7YQ

[JonClarke]

This may be a stupid question but since there's air within the ISS wouldn't they be able to swim/ flutter from side to side?

Air is 1/823 as dense as water so swimming is 1/833 as effective in air as in water.

I wonder how they keep track of everything?

With great difficulty I believe.

EDIT: Also on a completely different subject why is Kibo so quiet? Is it more advanced than the other modules or is it just far from life support equipment?

A bit of both perhaps?

[Craigboy]

Air is 1/823 as dense as water so swimming is 1/833 as effective in air as in water.

A bit of both perhaps?

So it wouldn't work at all? They'd be stuck there until they started tossing mass off?

[Clive Tester]

Ever seen the IMAX movie To Fly?

I hav'nt, where is it showing? I was well impressed with the IMAX movie in London.

[JonClarke]

So it wouldn't work at all? They'd be stuck there until they started tossing mass off?

Not well certinly. So you could either spit or start undressing....

However the air circulation would probably move you faster than any of these.

So fhe upper deck of Skylab was the only space large enough for people to get really stuck this way. I don't know if it ever happened.

[mugaliens]

I hav'nt, where is it showing? I was well impressed with the IMAX movie in London.

To Fly! is the first ever to be shot in IMAX format. It first played at the US National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. in 1976, and is still shown daily!

If you can't make it across the pond, you might from some showtime information here.

[Craigboy]

To Fly! is the first ever to be shot in IMAX format. It first played at the US National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. in 1976, and is still shown daily!

If you can't make it across the pond, you might from some showtime information here.

And think when I went to the Air and Space the only show I saw was narrated by Whoopi Goldberg...

[NEOWatcher]

So fhe upper deck of Skylab was the only space large enough for people to get really stuck this way. I don't know if it ever happened.

I'm not even sure the possibility is high enough to even think about. Whatever got you into the open space to begin with will keep you going. So; only if an object with the exact mass, speed, and trajectory hits you to stop your momentum, you would be OK.