Friday, March 27, 2009

ISS Video

Video from MSNBC of the International Space Station flying around the Earth:


The International Space Station is the largest human-built object ever put into space. It is 240 feet long by 336 feet wide. It currently has 26,500 cubic feet of living space, about as much as a four bedroom house. It weighs more than 600,000 pounds. It orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes or so at an altitude of about 190 miles. It has been continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000 with a crew of 3. Beginning the end of May, it will have a permanent crew of 6.

1 comment:

Don the Baptist said...

That's sublime. I want to hear Strauss' Blue Danube while I'm watching it.