Views of Earth from Space Station

A compilation of HD video taken from the International Space Station. Space Shuttle is flipping belly-up so astronauts on the station can inspect the hull for any damage.

Footage taken from the video "Life in Orbit", available on NASA's website, filmed by space station Expedition 13 astronauts Jeff Williams and Pavel Vinogradov. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/HDGalleryCollection_archive_5.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Earth
• Space
• Shuttle
• International
• Station
• Planet
• World
• View
• Astronaut
• Clouds
• NASA
• HD

[al3x440]

can you sky dive back to earth?

[adAstra35]

@al3x440 Joe Kittenger did back in '60s - he was in the U.S. Air Force and for a test he jumped out of a balloon from more than 100,000 feet up. I wanted to link a video for ya but apparently Youtube is censoring links like that cuz I got an error when I tried.

[sohcsarewicked]

@adAstra35 you can put the link in your description too :)

[adAstra35]

@sohcsarewicked Good point - done. 

[macku15]

if you guys want to fly that high...just take the space shuttle called "weed" and you will be beyond that! ha ha ha

[adAstra35]

@macku15 Amen, brother.

[williamcartee]

i would love to die in space

[nuim2011]

@mariamole011 yeah thats atmosphere

[macmilitant123]

Scary

[mariamole011]

what is that blue part? atmosphere?

[mariamole011]

@williamcartee i thought you would say live there.

[moatsy101]

THATS COOL!!!!

[langeminerva]

AWESOME!!!

[webboffin]

0:12 look how thin our atmosphere is yet it has to absorb all of mankinds pollution.

[xpalata]

@al3x440 no you couldn't, they are going too fast.

[cantmesswithgermany]

first dislike. i love to ruin things 8-)

[EinkOLED]

You can't sky dive back to earth when your in orbit, maybe in 50 years time when the orbit slowly decays. But then you'll return back into several burnt pieces.

Joe did it at 100,000 feet, space is 350.000 feet, and at that altiude you would accelerate at too much of a velocity to survive the air resistance.