My cubicle is a mansion!
http://www.wimp.com/orbitaltour/
My cubicle is a mansion!
http://www.wimp.com/orbitaltour/
Thanks, that was amazing. Six months of living there!!!
I want to shave my head just watching the first minute of that.
Some astronauts get really attached to it. I think my favorite part of the final Shuttle mission to the ISS was watching Sandy Magnus. She had previously been a Station Expedition member. In addition to the Fabulous Space Hair(tm), she had a smile all week like she was back at her favorite vacation resort.
I know that a lot of folks get sick in zero G and I can see why. If you could get over the nausea that looks like it would be a riot to do for a while.
Very cool, thanks for posting that.
They are crazy though, I would go absolutely insane inside of a week.
914Driver wrote: My cubicle is a mansion! http://www.wimp.com/orbitaltour/
Think so? Join the Navy.
That space station is huge and roomy in comparison to many Navy ships.
foxtrapper wrote: That space station is huge and roomy in comparison to many Navy ships.
I bet it gets real small when somebody farts.
jg
That video was awesome. 
I would love to go zooming around in zero G with my hair flying everywhere.
I wanna hang out with Sunny
how cool
Imagine having a garage where you can store stuff on any surface, as long as it clipped or strapped down, and to effortlessly rotate a heavy object, like a car or engine any way you like.
Coming back to gravity after weeks in space must be a relief, but at the time you probably look at the ceiling and walls and wonder "why can't I walk on those?"
JG Pasterjak wrote:foxtrapper wrote: That space station is huge and roomy in comparison to many Navy ships.I bet it gets real small when somebody farts. jg
Which in a pressurized enviroment, happens more than you know
foxtrapper wrote:914Driver wrote: My cubicle is a mansion! http://www.wimp.com/orbitaltour/Think so? Join the Navy. That space station is huge and roomy in comparison to many Navy ships.
I spent four years on a Sub.
Home, home on Lagrange,
Where the space debris always collects,
And we have, so it seems, two of man's greatest dreams:
Solar power and zero-gee sex!
PHeller wrote: Imagine having a garage where you can store stuff on any surface, as long as it clipped or strapped down, and to effortlessly rotate a heavy object, like a car or engine any way you like.
And where liquids and dust particles will float arouind freely unless collected with suction...
Saw the video when it first came out, I remember how tiny the gaps were to get through the docks to other attached craft...no fatties on the space station for sure!
That said the only reservation I'd have is the toilet, that part surprised me...you have to poop into something the size of a coffee cup and then there is a whole arsenal of TP-substitutes depending on the severity of the aftermath...dunno how long I could put up with that.
Duke wrote: Home, home on Lagrange, Where the space debris always collects, And we have, so it seems, two of man's greatest dreams: Solar power and zero-gee sex!
Has anyone bumped uglies in space yet? Sure seems like it would have happened by now.
No humans, on the record at least. A porno producer wanted to pay Virgin Atlantic for a ride to space in which they'd film a movie but VA scrapped the idea.
does anyone else look at her and think "medusa"?
the loss of "down" vs. "up" orientation messed with my head a bit when she was showing the sleeping chambers. The camera and labelling denotes what is up, but otherwise it's whatever direction you are. Neat video.
GAh I wanna go to spaaaaace.
How long until normal people can go chill in space for a few days? 20 years? 40? Any more and I'll be too old. Stop making Teslas and get on it, Elon...
Jamesc2123 wrote: GAh I wanna go to spaaaaace. How long until normal people can go chill in space for a few days? 20 years? 40? Any more and I'll be too old. Stop making Teslas and get on it, Elon...
Probably never, just takes too much energy to get the mass up there.
Energy's not getting any cheaper...if we had maybe tech from 20-40 years in the future combined with a 50s-ish low point of fossil fuel prices, it might have happened for a little while.
Edit: Did some research and oil was actually cheapest in 1970, by what we would today call a small margin.
Hmm, space lottery it is, then.
That's pretty cool! Thanks!
My 9yo wanted to know if we really had to know quite so much about the bathroom!
Her hair is pretty awesome, in a Medusa kind of way.
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