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Fish-eye lens view of the interior of Cupola with shutters closed Berthing operations within Cupola. The International Space Station Cupola was first conceived in 1987 by Space Station Man-Systems Architectural Control Manager Gary Kitmacher as a workstation for operating the station's Canadarm2 robotic arm, maneuvering vehicles outside the station, and observing and supporting spacewalks.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...
Sony α7S II, [12] which captured the first commercial 4K video footage in space in 2016. [12] Nikon Z 9 (since 2024) [9] [13] Multi-function devices with a camera feature: iPhone 4 [14] [15] [16] HTC Nexus One [14] iPad 2 [17] Installed hardware/experiments (no longer active) High Definition Earth-Viewing System (HDEV) [18] 4:3 standard ...
The STS-88 Space Shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity, the first of three node modules, and connecting it to Zarya. This bare 2-module core of the ISS remained uncrewed for the next one and a half years, until in July 2000 the Russian module Zvezda was launched by a Proton rocket, allowing a maximum crew ...
The positioning had to be precise. The shuttle's nose was raised 200 feet into the night sky so that the rudder could clear 80 feet of space. Endeavour was then turned 17 degrees clockwise to ...
The Advanced Space Vision System (also known as the Space Vision System or SVS) is a computer vision system designed primarily for International Space Station (ISS) assembly. [1] The system uses regular 2D cameras in the Space Shuttle bay, on the Canadarm , or on the ISS along with cooperative targets to calculate the 3D position of an object.
This was the final EVA from the Space Shuttle before its retirement. 160. Expedition 28 EVA 1: Ronald J. Garan, Jr. Michael E. Fossum: 12 July 2011 13:22 12 July 2011 19:53 6 hours, 31 minutes This spacewalk was kind of special in that it was the last spacewalk performed while a space shuttle was docked to the station.
STS-96 was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, and the first shuttle flight to dock at the International Space Station. It was Discovery's 26th flight. [1] [2] The shuttle carried the Spacehab module in the payload, filled with