What a rocket launch looks like from the International Space Station
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If this 30 second clip is from launch to orbit, which is an assumption. It would mean this gif is sped up by about 16x real speed. Launch to orbit is about 8 minutes for most rockets.
If you pay attention near the end, you can see the booster stage burning up as it falls back down to Earth.
This is the source of the gif.
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i take it back earth and a human are closer in size than earth to the galaxy.
When do we get VR experiences of being in the ISS or doing spacewalks?
I dunno anything about VR, so it's possible they already exist.
I dunno anything about VR, so it's possible they already exist.
I think you could pull this off with Google Cardboard or one of those cellphone based VR headsets
Already there and pretty good on Oculus Rift and Vive I assume.
There's an ISS one. There's also one where you can experience the entire Apollo 11 mission in real time if you want.
Cool. Are they sold individually as movies or games or something?
Is there a lot of variety? My uncle is into opera, especially when performed in ancient and historical venues. I wonder if they have stuff like that. Sorry for the off topic.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/457860/Apollo_11_VR/
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/apollo-11-vr-ps4/
They are games.
With regards to spacewalking in VR, doesnt exist yet. I think the most advance they have got with cameras is 4k in resolution. Any equipment that gets taken up to the space station and has to be exposed to space as part of an EVA has to go through very rigorous qualification. I think we may see it in future, certainly.
Don't forget we're currently hurtling through space at what is it millions of miles per hour? Kinda crazy how gravity keeps us all completely unaware. The earth rotates very quickly as well.
Space is so amazing.
From a fixed point above the earth, the surface of the earth appears to move ~1,000 miles per hour. That's what it needs to do to get everyone spun once every day.
You're spinning 1,000 miles per hour relative to the ISS, 67,000 mph around the Sun, god knows how fast around the milky way.
Nitpicking: That'd be correct if the ISS happened to be on a fixed point above the Earth (like a Lagrange point), but it is actually flying much, much faster in order to keep such a low orbit: It laps around the Earth every 90 minutes at 17,000 mph (27.500 kmh).
Just in case you didn't know: NASA is attempting a Mars landing this monday (26th). Should be exciting!
OOOOOOOOOOH???????
I'm about to buy a PC Headset to go with my PSVR.
Is that Apollo one the one that has been on the Playstation store for a while now?
Which is one reason I want to get a VR Headset. After all the shit that goes on in life, I could just leave the world and view it from out there for a few minutes... then be humbled. At least that is what I think I'd get out of it.
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Really? Every time I think of space I think of my head popping off like a balloon, and/or being flash frozen. Space is scary.
The dream of what could have been, but probably will not be, because we were too busy being awful, and not learning from lessons already made.
Amazing footage.
How can so many people be so unfazed by space exploration, when we have stepped into the realm of gods and myth? This is the most amazing time in the history of mankind.