Space Station Tour with Suni Williams 🚀
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were the crew for the first manned test flight of the Boeing Starliner, launched in 2024 from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station -- after an earlier launch attempt was scrubbed due to a faulty LOX valve on the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas rocket.
Almost a dozen years ago, Suni Williams, then the commander of the International Space Station, gave a tour of the ISS that remains the best introduction to what it feels like to live in space. Although that original video has been posted by NASA and others numerous times, including in questionable upscaled forms, it seems an appropriate time to post it again, this time with some anachronisms edited out and some shorts versions included.
The NASA original was made on November 18th, 2012. Williams departed the station a few hours after making the video, riding in a Russian Soyuz vehicle to Kazakhstan. Although changes have been made to the station since 2012, the basic configuration and most of the modules are the same.
The tiny white spots and thin line visible in some scenes are probably a glitch in the camera video sensor. Many electronics items suffer problems in low gravity, since the lack of convective air currents results in local overheating.
This video has been edited from original NASA sources and somewhat modified:
Enhanced and sharpened.
Upscaled slightly to 1080p (but not to 4K because the original was not 4K).
Edited to remove outdated information, resulting in the full video being about a minute shorter than before.
Cropped with manual pan and scan to meet YT requirements for vertical format shorts.
Edited again to meet YT requirements of no more than 60 seconds per short.
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credit: NASA