The Logistics of the International Space Station

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Select footage courtesy the AP Archive

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[nienke]

I love the ice cream part. It's so wholesome, especially when you consider that someone on earth had the brilliant idea to put this otherwise empty freezer to good use to give a nice surprise to the astronauts

[danChinadian]

9:59 NASA:"Well the astronauts are stressed let's show them a movie about a SPACE DISASTER!"

[kogania]

Imagine playing CS:GO on the ISS
"Dude your ping is so high what are you in space or something?"
Astronaut: "Uh"

[realnoahsimpson]

“thermostabilization”

or as we Earthlings call it, cooking

[TheCarPassionChannel]

"ISS crashes back to Earth when astronaut attempts to eat Nature's Valley granola bar and crumbs jam all of the electronics"

[VintageToiletsRock]

Clearly they should dehydrate the astronauts as well. They are like 80% water. Pretty wasteful if you ask me.

[xXRedTheDragonXx]

The image at 10:08 is one of my favorite pictures ever taken. It's literally a picture of real astronauts, actually in space, watching Star Wars, and eating their snacks.

What makes it more special is that I have a partial connection to one of the objects in that image. In the center of the frame you can see a metal storage cabinet. That cabinet was designed and signed by people that went to the same high school as me, and then manufactured at the NASA Glenn research facility, partially by someone that I went to high school with. The signature of one of my friends from high school is actually on the ISS, and is on the back side of an object featured in one of my favorite pictures ever taken. Incredible.

[derkach]

Imagine the face when you overcook your 1800$ spaghetti.

[MyFreeVideoServer]

I don't think there could be many things worse than experiencing food poisoning while in zero gravity

[MABFR]

For some reason, I got really happy for them when they got the ice cream 😄

[octamaster]

NASA: *Spents like $600 on a tortilla*
Astronaut: *puts jelly on it*
NASA: excuse me wat the fuk

[doubtfulguest]

There's still tribal humans living primitive lives in the jungles, disconnected from hundreds of years of the species' progress.

Then there's humans floating around in space, making science, eating ice cream and video calling their families (while in space).

idk i just find that interesting to think about.. the contrast; the perspective

[Jeffrey_Wong]

For anyone curious: at 9:52 the astronaut is recording his weight (ok, technically mass). The heavier the astronaut, the slower the machine bounces up and down.

[DoomFinger]

You like apples?
Well these cost $10, 000!
How do you like them apples?!

[samantoniak]

Just yesterday I watched a ISS resupply launch by Northrop Grumman at Wallops space center in Virginia. It was the coolest sound I have ever heard.

[cobytang]

10:01 Watching Gravity on the ISS. LOL

[nick]

Its good to see we are taking such good care of our astronauts. US or otherwise. Anyone who is able to make this great journey into space is worth their weight in gold and should be treated properly so it makes me happy seeing them get fun treats and movie night, etc.

[thelastcube.]

4:30 Wendover predicting future of smartphone pricing

[alexlandherr]

At 10:05, Gravity must feel like a horror film on orbit.

[ahendo]

“Only get 300mbps download speed”

Mate in Australia we get 12mbps on a good day