Video: Everything about living in space

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Video: Everything about living in space

NASA recently released a quick rapid-fire video about some of the basics of living in the International Space Station. Astronaut Reid Wiseman answers questions about orbital life while walking around the full scale mock-up of the station at the Johnson Space Center.

Wiseman was selected to be an astronaut in 2009. At the time, he was a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy. He developed a desire to become an astronaut after seeing a space shuttle soar into space in 2001.

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Progress freighter undocks from International Space Station

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Progress freighter undocks from International Space Station

After six months docked to the aft port of the Zvezda module of the International Space Station, the unpiloted Russian Progress MS-02 cargo ship left the outpost. A couple hours later, it was commanded to burn up over the Pacific Ocean.

Undocking occurred at 5:37 a.m. EDT (09:37 GMT) Oct. 14. Loaded springs initially pushed Progress away from ISS. The two passively separated for about 3 minutes. Once the craft was about 20 meters away from the orbiting outpost, a departure burn was initiated to increase the distance from ISS ahead of the deorbit burn.

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Soyuz trio blaze through atmosphere to land in Kazakhstan

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Soyuz trio blaze through atmosphere to land in Kazakhstan

After orbiting Earth for 172 days, three members the International Space Station’s Expedition 48 crew undocked their Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft from the outpost and barreled through the atmosphere a couple hours later to land on the Steppe of Kazakhstan.

The official landing time was 09:13 EDT Sept. 6 (01:13 GMT Sept. 7) southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Russian search and recovery teams circling the area in helicopters then landed near the capsule to help NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Aleksey Ovchinin out of the Soyuz after their nearly six-month stay in at the orbiting laboratory.

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ISS spacewalkers retract thermal radiator, install HD cameras

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ISS spacewalkers retract thermal radiator, install HD cameras

Two members of Expedition 48, NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins, ventured outside the station for the second time in as many weeks. Their task was to retract an unused thermal radiator, install a new light bulb and attach high definition cameras on the truss of the International Space Station.

The Sept. 1 spacewalk started at 7:53 a.m. EDT (11:53 GMT), after the Quest airlock had completely depressurized and the two astronauts spacesuits' switched to battery power. Williams was designated the lead spacewalker, EV-1, and wore red stripes on his suit. Comparatively, Rubins, EV-2, wore white stripes.

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