Take a virtual tour of the International Space Station (ISS)

What could be better than seeing and hearing to understand the atmosphere inside the ISS?

The International Space Station (ISS) is a place that very few humans will ever get to visit. To give us an idea, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet took Google Street View photos of the ISS during his first mission in space.

We can discover the space station as if we were there, and explore its various modules.

• The ISS tour on the Ovh site includes explanations and reference links, as well as sound. Your system or device may not be able to display everything.

• In that case, you can fall back on the one on Google Street View, which is technically simpler but a little less immersive. The tabs on the side also provide plenty of explanations.
  

• NASA's ISS Explorer isn't quite as impressive, being a technical virtual double but not "manned". You can visit it from the outside and the inside.
  
  
• If that still doesn't work, there's the visit filmed on YouTube in 3D by ESA, with 3D glasses,
  
  
• or Hetic's Virtual Tour of the ISS, without 3D.

The experience of life in weightlessness

In any case, there are several impressions to be gained from this visit, not least the "haphazard" aspect and the feeling of disorientation. It's a far cry from the ships of StarTrek, and much closer to today's submarines.

We also understand the level of training required of astronauts to handle all the equipment in the modules. What to do in the event of a breakdown, fire or leak? How to sleep, eat, wash clothes, go to the toilet? How do we operate or store this or that machine? How do we tell others our needs and understand theirs?

Even if we probably won't be fluent in space, we can certainly play "as if". like in the movie "Viking".

References

OVH - ISS 360° - https://iss360.ovh/

Google Street View - ISS

NASA International Space Station (ISS) Virtual tour - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/iss-virtual-tour/

3D guided tour of the International Space Station - 3D glasses - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvsP4Rl8-Ac

ISS virtual tour - Hetic - YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKPz9OqbNk

Viking - https://youtu.be/oGQz7Es4xs8