Space Station Tour with Suni Williams - part 16 🚀

We are starting with this part because it is more typical of this tour than the part 1 introduction. It is also more fun.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are the crew for the first manned test flight of the Boeing Starliner, launching May 6th, 2024, from SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. That flight was, however, scrubbed a few hours before launch due to a faulty LOX valve on the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas rocket stack. The launch should still take place during May, 2024.

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 a special multi-episode shorts version 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, though they could be in the optical system. Many electronics items suffer problems in low gravity, since the lack of convective air currents can result 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Edited to remove outdated information, resulting in the full video being nearly a minute shorter than before.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

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Why start with episode 16? Because it looked like fun.
Update: The first crewed test flight to the ISS of the Boeing Starliner, with Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as pilots, was scrubbed a few hours before launch on May 6th, 2024, due to a faulty LOX valve on the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas rocket stack. The launch should still take place during May, 2024.