International Space Station

So this is a little bit of trivia about this one.

The, uh, The astronauts on the International Space Station, once a month, apparently, they get to request a movie that's in theaters.

And most studios are like, OK, well, yeah, sure.

We'll stream this for

Fewer than 300 people have known exactly what it's like to work, eat, and sleep there in microgravity.

Life on the International Space Station, coming up next.

Welcome to Horizons.

Today, we are going to get a peek inside one of humanity's most remarkable laboratories.

It's 250 miles above Earth and travels at almost 18,000 miles an hour as it circles our planet in orbit.

The International Space Station, with its huge bank of solar arrays, is as long as a football field and as tall as a 10-story building.

And since the year 2000, scientists from 26 different nations have worked there, They've conducted experiments on everything from cancer to botany to some of the fundamental questions about our universe.

Its success has proven that humans can live and work off our planet.

Fewer than 300 people have known exactly what it's like to work, eat, and sleep there in microgravity.

Life on the International Space Station, coming up next.

Welcome to Horizons.

Today, we are going to get a peek inside one of humanity's most remarkable laboratories.

It's 250 miles above Earth and travels at almost 18,000 miles an hour as it circles our planet in orbit.

The International Space Station, with its huge bank of solar arrays, is as long as a football field and as tall as a 10-story building.

And since the year 2000, scientists from 26 different nations have worked there, They've conducted experiments on everything from cancer to botany to some of the fundamental questions about our universe.

Its success has proven that humans can live and work off our planet.

Comets, the two we talked about have faded even more and there's nothing much around.

comet wise so with the iss last week we had no passes this week we have no passes at all again and they start next week next tuesday and then after from then on we'll have one a night again so the pattern comes around and they do the sweep but they didn't they've changed the last when we had our last lot they were in the evening now they've come around they'll be in the morning for a couple of weeks and then they'll slowly move around until we see them in the evening.

So you have to wait for a week or so if you want to try and spot the ISS.

So that's what's up in the sky.

So we've got a little bit of news.

Democrats never thought we would be able to have electric cars until Musk developed Tesla into the most desirable electric brand that had ever, and you could make the argument, the most desirable auto brand on the road today.

He actually assisted in rescuing stranded astronauts on the International Space Station, and he did it at no cost to the federal government.

That is objectively a good thing.

But because the envy, because the ressentiment is so great in people, they see someone like Musk as fundamentally evil because he is victimizing others.

This edition of Orbital Briefing has a little of both.

Up on the International Space Station, two astronauts have just finished a major power upgrade that began more than five years ago.

NASA has also laid out a more detailed plan for the next steps in the Artemis program, including the complicated choreography it wants to practice before sending people down to the lunar surface.

And we'll look at an unsettling reminder that even a spacecraft built to inspect other satellites can be brought down by a problem inside its own protection software.

For now, we have some space news to catch up on.

Imagine owning a house where you are not allowed to turn off the electricity, where the nearest hardware store is hundreds of miles beneath your feet, and where installing a new piece of equipment means putting on a spacesuit and working outside at about 17,000 miles an hour.

That is a very simplified version of the challenge NASA and its partners face whenever they upgrade the International Space Station.

The station is a working laboratory and a home for its crew.

And speaking of sending humans to space, former SpaceXer and current NASA astronaut Anil Menon is actually up on the space station right now as part of Expedition 74.

And he captured these sweet photos of Starbase during an ISS flyover.

Hi, Anil.

We're all waving back at you, buddy.

Right.

So one of the interesting things I can, I have probably loads of examples from when I was working the ISS research.

But this mission in particular, this new generation of reactors that we're using is a newer fuel.

It's called high assay, low enriched uranium.