Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
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ISS crew’s 360-degree video is the closest you’ll get to space | My Page
You can always count on the crew of the International space station to harness technology to bring us up to the heavens with them. Back in july, they uploaded enough footage to map the entire station out on Google Streetview. Today, the crew uploaded the first spacewalk recorded in 360-degree video. Immerse yourself in footage of mankind maintaining its farthest outpost at the border of space.
The video was made by the Russian space agency Roscosmos in collaboration with Russian news outlet RT. It shows cosmonauts Sergey Ryazansky and Fyodor Yurchikhin performing station maintenance and launching 3 nano-satellites into space during 7.5-hour spacewalk performed back in August. 2 of them, named Tanyusha, were created by students in Kursk. Another, the Tomsk-TPU one hundred twenty from the city of Tomsk, really broadcasts multilingual messages that amateur radio enthusiasts will listen to by tuning into frequencies 437.025 MHz and 437.05 MHz.
The video captures the cosmonauts tossing 3 of the little satellites into orbit, letting them fall into gravitational limbo as the massive earth spins beneath it. watch for the sheer daunting perspective on humanity and stay til the end as a time-lapse speeds up the spinning planet below.
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Nasa record breaker back on Earth after logging 665 days in space
Peggy Whitson set multiple other records while in orbit: world’s oldest spacewoman, at 57, and most experienced female spacewalker, with 10
Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late on Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to first place for US space endurance.
Whitson’s 665 days off the planet – 288 days on this mission alone – exceeds that of any other American and any other woman worldwide.
She checked out of the International Space Station just hours earlier, along with another American and a Russian. Their Soyuz capsule landed in Kazakhstan shortly after sunrise Sunday – Saturday night back in the US.
She set multiple other records while in orbit: world’s oldest spacewoman, at age 57, and most experienced female spacewalker, with 10. She also became the first woman to command the space station twice following her launch last November.
Returning cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin logged even more time in space: 673 days over five missions. Nasa astronaut Jack Fischer returned after 136 days aloft. The men flew up in April.
It was an emotional farewell for Whitson, Yurchikhin and Fischer. Before retreating into their Soyuz, they embraced the three colleagues they were leaving behind at the 250-mile-high complex. Yurchikhin patted the inside of the station before floating into his Soyuz for the final time.
The station’s newest commander, Randy Bresnik, noted the outpost was losing 1,474 days of spaceflight experience with the departure of Whitson, Yurchikhin and Fischer. Four years and two weeks, he pointed out.
“We are in your debt for the supreme dedication that you guys have to the human mission of exploration,” Bresnik told them on the eve of their departure. He offered up special praise for Whitson, whom he called “American space ninja”.
Whitson, a biochemist, set a breakneck pace on all three of her space station expeditions, continually asking for more and still more scientific research to do. Scientists on the ground said it often was hard to keep up with her. She even experimented on food up there, trying to add some pizazz to the standard freeze-dried meals. Tortillas transformed into apple pies on her watch.
Whitson was supposed to fly back in June after a half-year in space. But when an extra seat opened up on this Soyuz, she jumped at the chance to stay in orbit an extra three months. Only one other American yearlong spaceman, Scott Kelly, has spent longer in space on a single mission. Because of the effects of Hurricane Harvey, Nasa could not get its plane from Houston to Kazakhstan in time for the crew’s landing. Instead, the European Space Agency offered to transport Whitson and Fischer to Cologne, Germany, where they will meet up with the Nasa plane for the final leg of their journey. They should be back in Houston on Sunday night.Except for the past week, Whitson said her mission hurried by. She is hungry for pizza and can not wait to use a regular flush toilet again. She’s also eager to reunite with her husband, Clarence Sams, a biochemist who also works at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Three men remain at the space station: Bresnik, a Russian and an Italian. They will be joined by two Americans and a Russian following liftoff from Kazakhstanon 12 September.
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