We see it in the sky, but can’t climb aboard.
The International Space Station is home to a small number of elite astronauts, working on cool experiments in a gravity-free environment.
But now, thanks to Google’s Street View, you too can take a ride inside the ISS.
Street View has, for the time being, ditched the cars and backpacks in favor of a small camera and bungie cords.
Bungie cords?
“In space, with zero gravity, the astronaut sets up with a bungie cord.”
That’s Google’s Deanna Yick on how the astronaut on the ISS contorted himself to take more than 1,500 pictures Google eventually stitched together.
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“He literally had to position the camera,” Yick says, “then float out of the way , take the picture, rotate the camera, and do it again.”
The result is a cool tour of every nook and cranny of ISS. You control it with your mouse. A chance to search, in space, from Earth’s biggest search engine.
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