#international space station

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Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.

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Strawberry Moon From The ISS

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Clearest Image ever taken of Mars’ North Pole. Yes that’s water ice.

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New moon before the new year l NASA

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if I was one of those astronauts stuck in the space station I'd be vlogging the fuck out of it. they still have the internet connection up there right? I'd be the most annoying vlogger I could possibly be. ooooohhhh nooooo nasa doesn't want me to spill secrets? bitch how are they gonna stop me without coming and getting me!!! GRWM to go investigate the mysterious pinging sound in the decrepit ISS that I'm trapped in!!! I'm doing live streams with the aliens! I'm making an onlyfans that's just me cosplaying as Ripley from the alien movies! nasa for every day you don't come get me the panties will get tinier and tinier. there will be a different kind of black hole broadcast on your website soon!! I'm posting a vid of me messaging and flirting with all the wives of the employees who are taking too long to come and save me. I'm tagging the official doctor who and star trek accounts in every post. I'm doing tiktok dances while the other astronaut is visibly trapped in the airlock behind me. I'm offering to do brand deals with a different country's space program. I'm posting a compilation of me asking the other astronaut "what are we" at the most inappropriate times. I'm going out of my way to edit my videos of earth so it looks flat just because I'm BORED.

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Fun fact, you can look at the earth live from the ISS.

If you see this blazed it's cuz I get a monthly blaze and I this is the post I wanna share.

The ISS feed has three looks:

The "It's in Earth's Shadow" black screen

The "They're using the internet bandwidth for something else right now like FaceTime with their family members" or switching access points

And the 👁️👄👁️

45 minutes in the sun, 45 minutes in Earth's Shadow, (90 minute orbit) so half the time there's nothing to show. Minus! the time that the video feed is shut off for bandwidth. So less then half the time it's awe inspiring but the times when it is: amazing.

I bought a 4 or 5 inch monitor for my desk that's just a browser window to this YouTube page.

You can hear the astronauts talk to ground control. If you're not expecting it you'll just hear a voice. A lot of it is mundane stuff like "hey, these serial numbers don't match up, what do I do?" or "houston the barcode scanner isn't syncing with the ipad, I've tried rebooting both". Since there's two astronauts that aren't supposed to be there it's mostly the two of them asking for assistance understanding what they need to do with experiments they weren't trained on. If you don't know about them an 8 day mission is turning into 10 months due to boeing cutting corners.

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Auroras from the International Space Station

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Spinoffs: Space Station Innovations in Your Cart (and Heart!)

You might think NASA technology is just spaceships and telescopes, but did you know the camera in your cell phone is, too? It’s one of many NASA innovations now found everywhere on Earth.

The International Space Station has had crew living on it for 25 years straight. In that time, the space station has enabled a tremendous amount of research, helping NASA and scientists better understand long-term living in space – but it’s not just knowledge coming back down to Earth! Technologies developed for the space station and experiments conducted aboard the orbiting lab also benefit people on the planet below. Here are a few of these inventions, or spinoffs, you can find in your everyday life.

A Sunscreen That Blocks Radiation in Space – and on Your Face

After surviving for 18 months outside the International Space Station, an extremely hardy organism is now improving sunscreens and face cream products from a cosmetics company, which licensed use of the organism from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Build Muscle With or Without Gravity

Muscles atrophy quickly in space, so when astronauts began long stays on the International Space Station, they needed some specialized exercise equipment. A resistance mechanism made of a coiled metal spring formed the basis of the first way for astronauts to “lift weights” in space. Soon after, that same design became the heart of compact home gym equipment.

Fresh Greens Every Day of the Year

The need to grow fresh food in space pushed NASA to develop indoor agriculture techniques. Thanks to the agency’s research, private companies are building on NASA’s vertical farm structure, plant-growth “recipes,” and environmental-control data to create indoor farms, resulting in higher crop yields and better-quality produce while conserving water and energy and eliminating the need for pesticides.

Cultivating Hearts and Knees in Space

Gravity is a significant obstacle to bioprinting cells and growing human tissue on Earth because heavier components settle to the bottoms of petri dishes. In the absence of gravity, each cell layer stays in place, which is how it’s possible to grow heart and knee tissue on the space station. The same principle also allows mixing of complex pharmaceuticals on orbit.

Storing Oodles of Energy

NASA chose nickel-hydrogen batteries to power the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station because the technology is safe, reliable in extreme temperatures, and long-lived. NASA’s improvements brought down the cost of the technology, which is now used by large-scale utilities and renewable power plants that need to store energy generated by intermittent sources.

You can read about many more products sourced from the ISS on spinoff.nasa.gov.

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NGC 7293 Helix Nebula in Aquarious constellation

Credit: Vista Telescope

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International Space Station & Moon

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International Space Station (ISS) passing across the field of view of the Moon, as seen from a telescope.

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Full Moon from the International Space Station

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(NEW UPDATE WITH PHOTOS) Send us your best photos!

Absolutely beautiful! I hope everyone took this in! Makes you think just how small we are. A moment the world comes together as one! That’s true humanity . We will be uploading more amazing photos to this same post. So come back later on and check out our 2024 once in a lifetime eclipse photos.

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North America from the ISS l NASAEarth

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