Departing Space Station Commander Provides Tour of Orbital Laboratory

In her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and downlinked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.

[@surgeville]

I was going to show my 5 year and twin 4 year old daughters 3 minutes of this. They were GLUED! At about 10 minutes I offered to turn it off and watch the rest later, and two of my girls shouted, "NO!" It was VERY cool - both the video and their reactions.

[@justinlines3715]

"I haven't sat down for six months now." Williams, S (2012)

[@Jeremy92Neel]

This is awesome and terrifying at the same time

[@joezilla29]

I met her and another astronaut eating at our restaurant the other day and shook their hands. I was so starstruck.

[@deacon75100]

Thank you, Commander Williams, for an interesting tour.

[@gusterguy01826]

This is one of the greatest videos I've ever seen. They are all so lucky to be able to experience that

[@dcacmasscomm5735]

+RedYellow Blue actually they all have trained for 5-6 years to experience that

[@l.p.2500]

I watced the whole documentary just because shes so bright

[@7rebor]

I love how even though she's been there for 6 months she still enjoys flying around in the space station! Just goes to show the novelty doesn't wear off any time soon.

[@latro666]

12:00 mind gets totally blown

[@LESTER7L1]

Fascinating!!!!! Great tour! She is AWESOME and LOVELY!!Thanks for sharing this Commander Williams!

[@Fancylooks]

I want some of that extraterrestial high hold hairspray too! This woman is amazing, so nice, such a wonderful smile all the time, she is very impressive and nice, God bless her. I don't want to imagine what kind of humour I would have after 6 months floating around on such an unhuman place.

[@kenandjakesgopro7939]

AWESOME!! Thanks Sunita Williams for sharing that with us. The views out the windows put everything in perspective for us. My 12 year old son Jake and I enjoyed watching your video and glad you returned safely.

[@strawberrypie777]

I couldn't stop watching this. Watching this I couldn't stop smiling. This is just so insanely cool. I so envy the astronauts!

[@MattJP93]

Thanks for making this video! It shows how well different countries can work together and what we are able to achieve when we work together.

[@BrockNMcGoff]

It's amazing what we accomplish when we (countries, cultures) partner with each other instead of argue and fight and kill each other. Freakin' space!

[@riparianlife97701]

The amazing thing to me is that they're not floating, they're falling. Imagine months at a time falling.

[@riparianlife97701]

***** And that is exactly what's happening. I love it. Amazing stuff, and even more amazing that we little blobs of atoms can understand it.

[@pierredraps3587]

Almost everything in the universe is falling...

[@user-lv7ph7hs7l]

Docktor Jim Atoms made in the cores of giant stars billions of years ago.

[@whybeafakebitch]

221 b according to the masonic scientists. Its scary when a society that has reached global power,can basically feed the ones living in their society anything they please.

[@rocketspushoffair]

***** dream on, you forgot about the nuclear physics of the discovery of polonium halos in granite among other things presented at a world symposium in the seventies published in Geologic Times and Science, and other major journals (all in the vidoe) that proves beyond any doubt whatsoever earth is less than 10,000 years old, and fiat creation kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJOuaquQaJ5raqs Oh, and watch NERD ACCIDENTALLY PROVES ROCKETS DON'T WORK IN SPACE kzbin.info/www/bejne/el7ZkH5noJ2Gm5I keep drinking NASA's kool aid, the high priest of the greenhouse gas RELIGION based on the lie that o2 and n2 do not absorb or emit solar or infrared energy NOSUCHTHINGASGREENHOUSEGAS.COM QUOTES "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." CIA director William J. Casey, 1981 NASA "You have already learned that Earth's atmosphere is composed primarily of nitrogen and oxygen. These gases are transparent to incoming solar radiation. They are also transparent to outgoing infrared radiation, which means that they do not absorb or emit solar or infrared radiation." National Center for Atmospheric Research "Most of the gas in the atmosphere is nitrogen and oxygen - both of which are molecules made of two atoms. The atoms in these molecules are bound together tightly and unable to vibrate, so they cannot absorb heat and contribute to the greenhouse effect." Science Museum in London, England "Nitrogen and oxygen don’t absorb infrared energy in our atmosphere because their molecules - composed of two identical atoms - don’t vibrate or rotate at infrared frequencies." Maryland University "The major components of the Earth's atmosphere are listed in Table 1. Note that the most abundant gases are not the greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides and water vapor -- but are instead nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen and oxygen, however, do not absorb energy in the infrared region, as do the greenhouse gases. The greenhouse gases, with the exception of water vapor, are present in the atmosphere only in trace amounts, on the order of parts per billion (ppb) to parts per million (ppm)." Columbia University "While the dominant gases of the atmosphere (nitrogen and oxygen) are transparent to infrared, the so-called greenhouse gasses, primarily water vapor (H2O), CO2, and methane (CH4), absorb some of the infrared radiation." *sucker*

[@minxlabrada]

Have a safe trip back! Love the Edward Scissor hands hair in space!

[@KorsarNik]

Amazing! The view from the cupola is just overwhelming.

[@kingstonrjsp]

this is one of the most amazing things i've ever seen

[@barbarawilliams7477]

Thanks for giving us a realistic look at the inside of the ISS. Great job to all of you serving in this capacity!

[@Alex5CK]

i can't even describe how awesome and fascinating this is. i am totally hooked on this channel

[@guyparasch4399]

I found this video very interesting, and well done! I never thought I would watch such a long video in its entirety, but it was so good, it was a pleasure. Very good tour Sunita.

[@mrjohnnyboy65]

I watched it all also. It is so well done and the narration is smooth and flowing. Held my interest from beginning to end.

[@RayWarren]

The coolest video I have seen all year and in my top ten all time hits. Thanks, for the amazing tour.

[@timrowe6420]

Watched this twice, and haven't tired yet. Thank you for making this vid. Just brilliant! Back in the late 60's, I and my schoolmates were watching the 'Race into Space', and now look, all these years later, what you have achieved. Remarkable is an understatement.

[@Barzins1]

Wow! For a claustrophobic person like me, it's just way too confined.

[@Renovarbiolife]

i just almost fainted of claustrophobic space. oops. real panic attack - looking at this

[@DavidRdavidminecraft]

The sound of the cupola creaking made me cringe, as if the cupola would detach from the rest of the ISS

[@bea596]

Watched this in school today and I loved it

[@lisbethnlaursen]

Thanks so much for the tour!!

[@heidentum]

This is so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing outer space with us millions of people who will never leave Earth.

[@rachel0rose]

Truly amazing! What a great tour!! Thank you!

[@aae811]

Great job Commander! We love the view. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful home and all the special places and things you and the crew use in space. Just amazing.

[@ElieAyoub]

Great video! Thanks for that. I can't believe how cramped up it looks though in there. Then again for a first of its kind project that started in 1998, it's definitely incredible. Loved the tour and the view from the cupola. Can't believe I hadn't seen this in the past year since it's been uploaded.

[@rhodored]

Sunita provides amazing commentary - making this amazing, complex, out-of-this-world experience accessible to us all. Thank you!

[@twa2europe1]

What a fabulous tour guide and tour. Sunita, you are terrific educator, along with being great fun. I've always wondered how it is to be in space and you gave the most complete answers.

[@ppbthorsen]

Awesome! Thanks for the video and of course, all the hard work you do!

[@GffHll]

This video is incredible! Just watched this with my 2 year old son and 5 year old daughter. She loved the view down to earth, how *you* were in charge, and how your hair floats around !!! My son loved how you get to wear socks all the time, and had a computer near your bed :) I was surprised how large it is. We get the email alerts and watch the ISS pass overhead on clear nights. Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@ibsdboi]

Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing the space station. This tour is incredible.

[@malachi5813]

Freekin Awesome!!!! thanks you for the tour!

[@tanuj000999]

Great video! Floating,Falling,Exercising & Flying in space with Our Real Super+Heroes & Thanks to Suni Williams & Kevin A. Ford.

[@daffes]

Thanks for sharing this video, one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time.

[@Lyrinda]

Great tour! Felt like I was there - that she was really talking to ME! I loved how she seemed like a mermaid swimming through one of those little castles they put in fishtanks - and like Alice floating down the rabbit hole. And how she talked about finding her bearings on the earth by types of clouds. Very cool! Sunny, you rock!!!

[@aaronezz]

Thank you so much, that was wonderful to see. Amazing!

[@AlliserThorne]

This is one of the most fascinating videos ever. Awesome!

[@skyadriana5419]

Lovely Suni! Thank you for sharing with us what we see only in our dreams.

[@kazoshay]

So amazing! Sometimes I forget the space station has been up there so long.

[@Inh3r1th0rp]

This right here is the greatest human achievement.

[@rmblue22]

This makes me wanna go there and hug this inspiring people that achieved such greatness for mankind

[@Tammy-bj3yx]

Very cool...thanks for taking the time to do this and for sharing!

[@user-kg2fg9vr8w]

Have no words. Its so amazing...)))) I watched the whole thing 3 times in a row))) And I am happy. Thank you Sunita Williams for this miracle))

[@steornhugh]

Cool and awesome. She explains it superbly. Great intelligence and competence. And never a dull moment.

[@boggleminded1]

Thank you soo much Commander Sunita!!! What a gift to us.

[@AviationSpot]

Her necklace floating is so trippy. When she did the superman, I was defs trippin

[@twistedyogert]

How does she control her movement through the ISS without hitting anything. She was floating around like a helium balloon. I probably would have smacked my face on the ceiling. :-P

[@peterholiday9640]

+twistedyogert She just aims in the direction she wants to go and pushes off.

[@FiveSigma72]

This was awesome. It would have been really cool if they filmed the trip back in the Soyuz though.

[@cureforherpes101]

Polecat Slam yeah, I would've loved that, too!

[@supervegito2277]

+Melanie Addington agreed

[@twistedyogert]

+Polecat Slam wait, she said that she her family sent fluff up to her. I can imagine the postage would be quite expensive. LOL I can't imagine how awesome weightlessness feels. Wish I could experience that on Earth. :-( I'm too dumb and impulsive to be an astronaut.

[@AeonX7]

+twistedyogert yes you can experience weightlessness here on earth. it feels the same as free-falling without the air rushing at you. you can pay to experience it just google

[@whopperlover1772]

It's actually pretty boring.

[@poorenglishjuggler]

see..... Russians and Americans can be friends

[@boots61]

Amazing tour and great commentary. Thanks!

[@GasserGlass]

Absolutely Amazing, Outstanding and most of all claustrophobic.... Like another said...the best 25 minutes I've spent on KZbin yet!..... Thank you very much

[@debrazgalaxy]

WOW~ So glad my friend shared this~ AWESOME!! Thank YOU for taking the time to do these videos.

[@larryhenry631]

Thank you for the tour i enjoyed it immensely...Larry Henry, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

[@edwardheikell9894]

Fantastic tour!! It makes you really feel like you have been there. We hear of all of these things, but the video brings them to life--good job!

[@marizroddick]

One of the coolest video I've ever watched!

[@quadrplax]

They have exit signs on the ISS, lol.

[@emilk7988]

+quadrplax Yea ofc, even if u have been in such a huge building for multiple months, if not years (doubt years tho) you can still get confused by panic =))

[@smelysox]

amazing absolutely life changing, i was so ill informed prior to watching this :D

[@Cityj0hn]

Thank you guys for the tour

[@artjuliek]

Amazing video. Thank you for your service!

[@minedeplomb]

Thanks for the tour, it was simply amazing...

[@kingsleyishere3697]

Wow..!! I just saw EARTH I live in from a space station..My heart Stopped at 12:00.

[@JanLewellynjan2014]

This was amazing to watch. THANK YOU!!!

[@Vulcanscienceacademy]

What a grand tour of a beautiful craft. Thank you NASA and all else involved in making this wonderful video.

[@gcallant]

Loved loved this video. Thank you Ms Williams (and CC Kevin) for providing that! Great job!

[@dangerussrussruss]

Such a fantastic video...a real eye opener :-)

[@Obviousman1]

Thanks for the tour!

[@robertobeltramelli3811]

Terrific, I have watched it twice and will again. I have mentioned the tour to many of my Ham Radio Friends and posted it on our Facebook Group sites. So very interesting and well done. Hopefully this is shared with everyone who has an interest in visiting the Space Station. Thank you again.

[@javierromero23]

amazing, thanks for this video!

[@Samizon890]

I met her today!!!!! She was awesome and she told me that she cut her hair shorter because it would be easier to get around the station. She told me that she was up there for 6 months!!!! Also she told me that the sun rises and set 16 times in their day! So, that means they have to be on a specific time zone to stay in contact with NASA also she has to know Russian because they work with Russia too! She was so cool and inspiring!

[@TheJetwax]

Thanks for putting that on. What an experience to share. Fabulous d'-)

[@DarkAsgaro]

Wow, amazing and informative walkthrough / flythrough :D

[@Vitoandolini13]

Thank You for the tour Commander

[@soundstream03]

So amazing! I wish I had found this video a long time ago.

[@helihobbit]

loved it! Fabulous to see all the gadgetry and the crazy orientations,no up, down or whatever!

[@purebubbles]

that was very informative and i actually felt like i was in space for 25 mins. Thank you so much for giving us this tour

[@omfgitslyzz]

This video is awesome! Thanks to Suni and Kevin for making this :)

[@ByTruthImFree]

Where do you keep the vodka?

[@Marth8880]

HAHA Gravity...

[@DrMontyProductions]

The Russian MIR space station did actually have alcohol on it. Don't know if it was vodka though

[@ballochdubh]

Thank you its just amazing.Take care,and god bless you all.

[@sandstoney]

What a great movie you both made ,it is awesome ,for you to bring us inside ,what a great tour ,thankyou

[@vanair1488]

Now THAT is a selection of T.P.! Great video!

[@illuminatedrose]

Fascinating and very informative. Thank you!

[@brahim119]

Thank you very much for the tour.

[@NikitaWill]

I'm in awe this is one of the most fascinating places to be, inside the ISS you have no time to waste, everything is so interesting, you will keep your mind busy all the time, thank you commander Williams for the tour.

[@jaredkebbell443]

Really amazing video, from start to finish. I'm really glad she decided to end her tour with the Soyuz. I've always been curious about them, since they're pretty much the most reliable and successful human spacecraft ever built. I've read they're really cramped--evidently a severe understatement!--so, I'm wondering why do the hatches open *inwards*? I'm surprised the guy who has to sit in that middle seat can even fit inside!

[@kingofalldoughboys]

Soooo cool! Thank you, Commander for the excellent tour!

[@steverogers4553]

Great stuff, thanks for that, good luck up there !

[@bloggerpillai]

What a spectacular tour, thank you Sunita (Sunny) and Kevin! What a remarkable piece of machinery. Envious, but happy for you.

[@NoiseArtJerk]

So amazing, not only all the info and perspective you provide, but to just watch you move around. I hope that somehow in my life time I am able to go to space. Not counting on it, but its a nice thought.

[@zenogias01]

Thank you, NASA, for this video! I get chills down my spine every time I think about how we have a space station. Wonderful!

[@HDsKillzProductionS]

it's older but it's great to see everybody working together

[@googleplusisdead]

Fantastic! Thank you for doing this video and sharing.

[@TerriNakamura]

Wow. How amazing!

[@MainOffenderKZ]

this was so interesting! thanks

[@fenderstratADHD]

I am into space ever since I saw the film Gravity! Incredible film! Being able to "fly" up there in space sounds so cool! I would love to be weightless! Amazing ISS tour!

[@JezebelDecibel]

Thank you so much, for the Joy, this tour of the Orbital Laboratory placed in my mind.