Video: Inside The International Space Station During A Reboost. I Am Jealousy.
Every so often, the International Space Station has to reboost itself to a higher altitude, because of wonky things like microgravity drag (I didn’t think that up) and such bringing it closer to our Watery Blue Planet. Recently, during a reboost the ISS crew videotape the effects of this altitude correction on their lovely little bodies.
Hint: they get to go for a ride.
Hit the jump to check it out.
The International Space Station (ISS) occasionally has to boost itself into a higher altitude to counteract the effects of microgravity drag. Recently, the ISS boosted itself about two miles up, and video cameras caught what happened inside to Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov as the ISS floats away from them with them inside.