STS-124? Space Shuttle? What do they do up there?
Watch this.
Whether you like the music track or not, the video footage is spectacular, particularly the picture-in-picture parts. It shows the Shuttle mission right from pre-launch to landing, giving a great overview of how the vehicle operates and what they do.
Goes right through to launch, orbital operations, installing and configuring Kibo (the massive new Japanese built laboratory), footage of spacewalks, and shuttle manoeveurs like the R-bar pitch manoeveur (backflip), and the flyaround of the space station.
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(for those who want to know what happens at the end of that video… it’s possible to get “stranded” in a space station as there’s no gravity to return you to the “floor”)
Awesome video. Looks like an incredible job (and a hard one too). But guess I would get little depressed stuck that long inside the ISS
Funny thing in the end. Now I know how to do a prank in space – move someone to the center of a room while (s)he’s sleeping
Henrique
July 24, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Wow. Astonishingly awesome. I think about every little thing one has to think to make THAT happen.
I wish I was there.
Thanks
Russo
July 25, 2008 at 8:06 am