The ISS is just amazing really.

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In amongst all the fighting and warring on the ground I thought I'd share with you one of our amazing adventures as the human race.

Live stream from the ISS: Live_ISS_Stream on USTREAM: Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times...

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Cruise around the earth in timelapse:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HttdxjYK7EQ]Earth seen from Space (TimeLapse HD 1080p) - YouTube[/ame]

Aurora borealis (with Tiesto):
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcWQeQTzF2E]International Space Station - Tiesto - Ten Seconds Before Sunrise -(in HD) by Grafton Reed - YouTube[/ame]

Interview (boring):
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cCnK7dQ-VI]International Space Station Tour 2012 HD ISS Tour - YouTube[/ame]

Soyuz docking:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2MHh6WpJqw]Soyuz TMA-06M Docks to ISS - YouTube[/ame]


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I love space and our exploration of it - absolutely amazing.

ISS Tracker:
ISSTracker ~ Real-Time Location Tracking of the International Space Station

Where to spot the ISS zooming past in the sky:

NASA - Spot The Station
 


To put it in perspective for me - I grew up when MIR was the space station and I remeber the first Shuttle launch... it absolutely blew my mind as a kid.

Columbia:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6Bt1pZ4Is]First Shuttle launch Columbia 1981 - YouTube[/ame]


And here's some wonderful footage of a Shuttle launch from the engineering cameras in slow motion. (silly frame-rate filming etc.)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2VygftZSCs]Ascent - Commemorating Shuttle - YouTube[/ame]
 
The spacewalking components of these videos freak me out almost as much as watching russians hanging off the edge of buildings.

You mentioned the shuttle launch as one of your first memories. Mine was sitting in class watching the Challenger launch - which was a big deal for teachers since one of them was an astronaut.

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I remember all the kids staring at each other when it exploded and the teacher running to turn off the tv.
 
It was by no means one of my first memories, but it was so distinct. Probably a bit like people seeing the first Saturn / Apollo launch. I also watched every second of it's landing that I could, amazed that they returned a glider from space!
 
Meanwhile, the surviving apollo astronauts virtually all say aliens exist and the us gov't has been test-flying reverse engineered "ufos" out of area 51.

But the ISS is amazing, really. Truly, it is

Amazingly funny.
 
bodiddley said:
Meanwhile, the surviving apollo astronauts virtually all say aliens exist and the us gov't has been test-flying reverse engineered "ufos" out of area 51.

But the ISS is amazing, really. Truly, it is

Amazingly funny.
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When I can smoke a joint, sit back and watch HD vids on youtube of aliens cruising around the galaxy then I will care.
 
bodiddley said:
Meanwhile, the surviving apollo astronauts virtually all say aliens exist and the us gov't has been test-flying reverse engineered "ufos" out of area 51.

But the ISS is amazing, really. Truly, it is

Amazingly funny.
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Ed Mitchell is the only one I have heard say we have made any sort of contact with aliens. Who else has?
 
bodiddley said:
Meanwhile, the surviving apollo astronauts virtually all say aliens exist and the us gov't has been test-flying reverse engineered "ufos" out of area 51.

But the ISS is amazing, really. Truly, it is

Amazingly funny.
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Indeed it is! People spending several months flying over the planet in an orbit of 90mins isn't an amazing feat? Only having to reboost every now and then. The fact that it's a living space now (well the Russian segment seems to be a real party). It can just be added to and extended until the next one is built.
We are going to be living in space soon. Not you or I, but our future generations.
 
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