NASA TV

[fluxcore]

Not sure if anyone else is interested, but I only learned about this yesterday and find it utterly fascinating.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Streaming video from NASA mission control, the international space shuttle, the cameras mounted on the astronaut's suits, on board the space shuttle Endeavour... you can hear the dialogue between all parties, and quite often NASA narrate what's happening as well.

There are some amazing shots at times, during yesterday's space walk, you could see the guys working on the module they installed on the ISS, all the while with the earth spinning down below.

The astronauts generally wake up about 10am our time, and while them doing anything takes a really long time, I'm totally captivated.

Today they are mainly preparing for tomorrow's spacewalk, and also moving some stuff into the module they just installed on the ISS.

Additionally if you like ambient music, there's an internet radio station which streams the audio chatter overtop ambient music at http://somafm.com/play/missioncontrol

[[NIUE] B1ackstar Ninja]

cool checking it out now

[fluxcore]

In a particularly cunning link, the main communications officer at Houston is called CAPCOM

you can see the name tag quite often when they switch to the mission control view

[fluxcore]

lol it gets even better, look at the blue bubble on the left hand middle of this image:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceStationCycle.svg

[budafist]

haha, thats classic.

mission control loves the SF

you could do some cool tatsu's and shoryukens in zero g

[Will]

I love watching the control room, its sooo fuckin sweet. Really want it tuned into my TV but it wont find it >_<

[gunsmoke]

cool

[fluxcore]

Nothing like a watching a spacewalk live from an astronaut's camera to make you go 'holy fuck... those guys are WALKING AROUND IN SPACE'