The incredible collaboration behind the International Space Station - Tien Nguyen

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This video was created with the support of the U.S. Office of Research Integrity: ori.hhs.gov.
The International Space Station is roughly the size of a six-bedroom house and weighs more than 320 cars -- it's so large that no single rocket could have lifted it into orbit. Instead, it was assembled piece by piece while hurtling through space at 28,000 kilometers per hour, lapping the Earth once every 90 minutes. Tien Nguyen explains how.
Lesson by Tien Nguyen, animation by Globizco.

[@Bibappu]

The World needs more collaboration like that. Less nuclear rockets - more international space exploration

[@HalfKILLER9999]

Or more American intervention and less worrying about other countries.

[@acgandhi]

+BENKO A lot of the old ICBM's are being turned into rockets for space. So there you go!

[@metronom3]

+BENKO you do realise it's the advent of no nuclear weapons that has made space exploration really difficult as the stable plutonium needed as nuclear fuel is no longer manufactured because of no new nukes???? Ironic that our most destructive technology is also needed for our most peaceful.

[@hoghogwild]

+Piero Bosco The Pu-238 used as a heat source to power space probes (such as the Voyagers

[@Bibappu]

+hoghogwild There you go 👍

[@akmalsy159]

See, you don't need conflict or competition to produce astounding achievements, collaboration and cooperation works even better.

[@NebulusVoid]

+danfg It provided a lot of scientific insight

[@akmalsy159]

***** well, that escalated quickly. While I recognize the immorality of forceful seizure of money from the populous, I also recognize the ISS truly is a great scientific achievement of humanity; but most of all, I recognize those two are not mutually exclusive. The ISS is a marvel of human scientific achievement, something like that wasn't even concievable 100 years ago, and the experiments done there will be crucial in humanity's quest for truth & exploration. But like *****​ posted, scientific achievement is not a justification for immorality, but that does not explain why immorality happen in the first place. Even without the ISS, the government will still burden the people with unfair methods in order to fund itself. But its also unfair to solely blame the government for these problems, the people also bear some responsibility for indirectly allowing it to happen, also the budget is not solely used to cover the government's interests, it's also used for the people's. If fact, do you know the greatest expenditure of U.S. national budget goes to care for the elderly? In other words, the immorality is the responsibility of the government and the people, not the ISS.

[@Stabacs]

+danfg do they send soldiers? or police officers? Or how do they force you to pay through violence? And also: Taxes are useful if spend right? The state needs money to provide education, security, cleaning, maintaining and repairing streets etc etc. And of course to keep science and culture alive.

[@Stabacs]

+danfg but the point is: why should I? It is stupid to not pay taxes. At least in a good state. Not the USA, I guess. As they use it for more war efforts instead of education or environment protection improvement, right?

[@Stabacs]

+danfg In my opinion the greed of people combined with free market economy is the problem of imbalance in money distribution. But this would lead into a long conversation about capitalism critique etc, and I wanna stick to the topic. Taxes have to be used the right way. Then they are actually helping with quality of life. The best example are countries like sweden and norway. As far as I know they have rather high taxes but also a very high standard of living. Also, there is a contradiction in you arguments. You say taxes are the reason of poverty. But without taxes there is no money for the state to do something against poverty. Like providing education, good infrastructures (for the economy), science fundings (that help after all the economy as well) etc. Also I don´t see how scientists are "morally corrupted" when they take money from the state. In my opinion they are more morally corrupted when they take money from Coca Cola, L'oreal or McDonald´s. Your argumentation seems to come from an individualistic point of view, but I think that discussions about taxes have to come from a point of view that has the well being of the society, mankind and the particular state in mind. But you are definitely right that taxes have to be used in a good way and there are enough examples in probably every state where some money goes into the wrong projects or pockets.

[@ObscureNemesis]

Remember being stoned one night, sitting in the balcony of my flat. The sky was clear, and the ISS happened to pass by. Looking at it, and thinking 'there are people up there in that thing", that was something else.

[@AndyRo999]

Yeah, I have seen it a couple of times, but I thought it was a regular satellite.

[@TEDEd]

CORRECTION: Space Shuttle Columbia did not deliver modules to the ISS on its final mission; it was conducting scientific experiments in orbit.

[@therealDannyVasquez]

+TED-Ed Why did you decide to not edit that part out?

[@StalePhish]

+Danny Vasquez Probably because the video was already uploaded, so they would have had to delete this one and upload another in its place. That would break a lot of links if people had shared this video with their friends or if it was re-posted on a blog

[@eldhobenny947]

Never repeat it

[@fqidz]

Hah

[@ojhamridul2552]

Don't try again

[@myrofpoptropica]

The animation for this video was stunning!!

[@jeanpaulruizvallejo]

Don't understand how can anybody dislike a video like this.

[@CarlosAM1]

Jean Paul Ruiz Vallejo flattards.

[@itabs9067]

the aniamation is very nice for this video

[@atapeworm]

No comment.

[@Deynea]

+icy diamonds but it is a comment :p

[@marioalonsojerez]

I know this is awesome... But can we talk about that gorgeous animation? Im speechless... 😮

[@ojhamridul2552]

Speechless but not textless ...so feel free to type

[@samshaw7087]

Ah, the standard unit for measuring size: a six-bedroom house.

[@sachinpatel9372]

😂😂

[@adriandapat1206]

Goddamn English system!

[@xer2964]

that will be the size of one football field

[@HKJeffer]

I live in a city where there are no six-bedroom houses. Guess I can never imagine the scale of the space station.

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

One of those two spending a year on the station is a twin, and his brother is being studied doing identical tasks here on Earth, a remarkable study in the effects of low-gravity on the human body.

[@nikbhatnagar9024]

His twin is also an astronaut and flew four times on the Space Shuttle

[@BariumCobaltNitrog3n]

@@nikbhatnagar9024 Yes. That should help the study because they are both in the same top physical condition.

[@tverdyznaqs]

the only place, where. Russia and The US can get along is, sadly, space.

[@ZipperOfficial]

+ZzzesChannel Seeing recent tensions between the two. I doubt that'll be the case for long.

[@Artyom751]

+ZzzesChannel Нет! Мы любим людей из Европы, США и любой другой стране наша общая мир! Проблема проста в том, что наши культуры и идеи сталкиваются. Но, пожалуйста, поймите нас. Так же, как мы пытаемся понять вас. Нам, русским, наплевать, что наше правительства подумать. Please know, that the people in Russia are not the government and the government doesn't represent the people. It's just that we don't have any alternatives.

[@ретскирТ]

Artjom Pavlov ахахах? Нет альтернатив? Вот я сейчас не шучу, был-бы живой гебелс или Гитлер то, даже они были бы лучшей альтернативой. Людей в стране полно, а то что ты думаешь что этих выблядков никто не сможет заменить, лишнее докозательство девственности пропаганды.

[@jotarokujo4787]

houston. get them inside the soyuz

[@fezii9043]

and csgo

[@kenbobca]

Outstanding video! Thank you very much.

[@akhilkg4947]

The animation, narration and the music.. this has to be one of the best Ted-ed video I've watched!

[@sirgrundel]

Why don't we do more types of international collaboration work like this ? we can get so much more done....

[@5dudelsack5]

Because it's expensive as hell. Also the USmspends more money on military we don't need to fight wars that don't end and result in millions of innocent people dying. If NASA had always gotten the funding of Apollo times, we would have been to mars by now.

[@MinecrafterPiano]

+Zedric I doubt that we'd be to Mars, but you do have a good point. Personally I'd say hell to war funding- the world has enough nukes to threaten every space on earth, so we should re-direct the funding to something more beneficial for everybody.

[@LuhrRunzRS]

+Zedric Expensive? Money is printed by people for people to use.

[@ethansnyder8779]

+P r o e t i c K z Yes, but you miss one very important aspect: inflation

[@LuhrRunzRS]

Oh, the problem caused by people and fixed by people?

[@satkotech]

I wish humanity would collaborate on more things like this. Imagine where we would be today.

[@cicadafun]

Should have another collab to make it bigger.

[@Gorilla9958YT]

make me I

[@MasterGokuBlade]

Starting from 3:30 the background score for the narration just take it to a completely different level of awesomeness! Wish I could get these awesome background scores from all TedEd vidoes somewhere!

[@fabrizio483]

You know, we have to marvel at what our species was able to accomplish. Now if we stopped fighting with each other, that would be even greater than our spacial achievements.

[@rajeshgupta1055]

That is an incredible collaboration by humans. The world would be a much much better place if we all start seeing people of other countries as our peers. #Peace

[@Jensenrobinb]

i wish youtube had a favorite comments feature just so i can add this one

[@USERCHECK1234]

There is something about humans being in space that brings out such a warm and compact feeling in me. Beautiful work.

[@dionjeremy1711]

I'm surprised no flat Earthers have infected the comment section yet

[@torin1006]

Dion Simon same.

[@fezii9043]

the universe is flat

[@thatguy6104]

@@froggymusicman *HEAVY BREATHING*

[@strider029]

ISS is flat!

[@ojhamridul2552]

Probably they are 🐍 . They will never know about 3rd dimension ..forget 4th

[@megumiluvr18]

Love the music. Makes the video sound very upbeat and adventurous!

[@patrickoneill1993]

I find it wonderful that international collaboration produced such an accomplishment.

[@Borkeen2024]

they should make a game about this with this beautiful animation 😀😀

[@caxer3305]

Welcome to KSP. But put the graphics away add more rocket customization and you have it

[@marcopohl3236]

My mom and I went stargazing once after finding out both Mars and the ISS would be visible from our house that night. Hearing how fast it orbits is one thing, expecting it to slowly wander across the sky and seeing it race through it in a matter of seconds is another!

[@_vallee_5190]

"Have you ever looked at a story sky?" No because I live in area with massive amounts of light pollution.

[@SafadosAteus]

You shouldn't have put Brazil's flag in the video. Despite being part of the initial team, Brazil did nothing besides embarrassing themselves, which led the country to being kicked out of the project. Brazil's participation in the ISS makes me ashamed of being Brazilian.

[@ojhamridul2552]

Brazil tried ...that's all matter.

[@gabrielfsx6038]

Kkk o Brasil participar da iss e uma piada msm

[@rydemk4168]

That one guy in the project that doesn’t do anything

[@pajis_xd]

If Im correct the only thing brazil was given to do was to construct two so-called Express palettes for the outside experiments on the iss, but than it was canceled

[@buklau1979]

Columbia's final mission (STS-107) did NOT visit the International Space Station nor was it even carrying a compatible docking port. The final flight was to test a new science module called SpaceHAB (in its cargo bay) in Low Earth Orbit over 16 days. You can read all about it in Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report available at NASA's website.

[@lilanigunasekara4031]

Wow..how wonderful..superb video..Post videos like this every day..

[@kokohector2018]

A true marvel of mankind collaboration.

[@erica2912]

Love the animation in this video

[@lethalmatcha]

The most eye pleasing TED-Ed video I've ever seen

[@augurelite]

THAT WAS SO PRETTY

[@sairayasmin1]

I don't even need to start watching the video to know I'm gonna like it. Great content as always

[@markbtw7987]

3:38 How epic would it be if they made a 12 foot dome completely see-through where you could get the illusion of floating in space?

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

+Bill CZY Only if you planned on staying in there for a few months.

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

***** And background, cosmic rays etc. All that matters is the total strength, which isn't really all that bad.

[@briankrohnke1569]

It doesn't need to be a dome, it could be VR, we already do it here on earth, look up cero-G flights.

[@antonsmith]

STS-107 carried the SPACEHAB Double Research Module on its inaugural flight, the Freestar experiment (mounted on a Hitchhiker Program rack), and the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet. SPACEHAB was first flown on STS-57. One of the experiments, a video taken to study atmospheric dust, may have detected a new atmospheric phenomenon, dubbed a "TIGER" (Transient Ionospheric Glow Emission in Red). On board Columbia was a copy of a drawing by Petr Ginz, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Vedem, who depicted what he imagined the Earth looked like from the Moon when he was a 14-year-old prisoner in the Terezín concentration camp. The copy was in the possession of Ilan Ramon and was lost in the disintegration. Ramon also traveled with a dollar bill received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. An Australian experiment, conducted by students from Glen Waverley Secondary College, was designed to test the reaction of zero gravity on the web formation of the Australian garden orb weaver spider. Columbia never docked with the ISS! Stop lying!

[@vegasspaceprogram6623]

The collumbia was not delivering research modules. It was just a science missions. The columbia was to heavy to reach an orbit as high as the iss on that mission, which is why it didn't go there.

[@sage8092]

I LOOVE THE ART STYLE

[@larsr2000]

Factual error at 3:23- Space Shuttle Columbia did NOT visit the ISS on its final mission.

[@augurseer]

+Lars R i was thinking same thing.....didnt know how to post it. God bless the crew of STS-107....but yea columbia was never going to the ISS she was to heavy. The old girl was made for lower inclination orbits.

[@R.B.]

And it didn't explode. It disintegrated as plasma gases, heated from the reentry, melted the internal structures of the wing, and increased drag overcame the control surfaces, causing the vehicle to rip itself apart spectacularly, resulting in the loss of the vehicle and the crew members.

[@captainskeleton3994]

So far can we go, so much we can achieve, only if we work together forgetting our differences. I am proud to be a part of this civilization.

[@randomly_random_0]

00:08 - 00:22 so relaxing

[@facebooklee52]

THE EARTH IS ROUND

[@ojhamridul2552]

It's oval

[@NateTheOhioan]

Lave it to TED-Ed to have answered questions years ago that I never thought I’d have

[@TheMrAdhitya]

The animation was outstanding along with enjoyable background music except the Columbia incident scene one. It was made to be depressing but still, it was arranged well. The narration was awesome, too. Incredible

[@JaK-fk9vt]

I LOVE that artist by the way, TED-Ed.

[@AluminumOxide]

Glad u included Brazil!

[@bealatorre9657]

One of my favourite Ted Ed videos.

[@northernhemisphere4906]

although by accident but after watching many videos of Ted Ed I have finally realized that the head opens eye in the beginning just like some videos in a sense opened mine.

[@augurseer]

amazing video....well done.

[@Inidentificado]

I once spotted an unusually bright moving object in the night sky, so I immediately checked the ISS position, and it turned out it was in fact the ISS. Watching it until from the beginning until it disappeared on the horizon was the best thing ever.

[@vebstar5686]

International Space Station, world's most interesting and fascinating thing...!

[@MarceloLangame]

What a amazing video. Thanks, Ted Ed.

[@aljpelayo2120]

Wow. Thanks for.thos video and for men and women who never stops asking how things work and let's work on it.

[@spiffcats]

All these countries working together is amazing. It is something you will not find in the middle east, that is for sure

[@thrawnprotocol9780]

What? Have you heard of something called the gcc? What is specifically middle eastern about not cooperating with other countries?

[@engineer4269]

This was awesome. Thank you Ted Ed!

[@andreygavina7690]

Thanks for helping me on the International space station project!!☺️

[@beaubreland8401]

I got to talk to people on the ISS and it was AWESOME

[@illumecast7197]

... and Sandra Bullock broke it in one movie...

[@sidharthcs2110]

Ken Jiang She broke the Tanging too

[@alsosprachrounak]

The animation is beyond compare.

[@welcometonerdland3425]

Love the graphics thank you

[@hannahm9083]

Did anyone else just start tearing up at various points throughout the video?

[@videogyar2]

The ISS is probably humanity's greatest accomplishment so far.

[@adityamishra2469]

How about LHC?

[@thangamuthur7097]

I hope they would do about CERN. International collaboration, biggest machine ever created on earth and uses 80% of CERN' s annual budget for just one run. Started it in 1998 I think

[@lil_soum]

Amazing as always :)

[@luismeza5490]

Amazing video!!!

[@LuqmanMal]

beautiful animation 👍👍👍👍👍

[@CosmoFella]

Zarya ("Зоря"), as well as Zvezda ("Звезда") means "a star". A sunrise in Russian is Rassvet ("Рассвет"). I am not Russian, I'm Ukrainian, just clearing it up so I don't get hate comments.

[@bobjoe109]

Only 100 billion for the ISS? The US now spends over 700 billion every year on the military. Sad what we waste our tax dollars on.

[@DittoKing0523]

🎵”This is Major Tom to ground control.. I’m stepping through the dooor!”🎶

[@MeMe-hb9iv]

Wow, nice video!

[@ismahilla4861]

I know who could afford it Mansa musa

[@ethanramerman6418]

i know too Bill G.

[@justinwhy6550]

@@ethanramerman6418 even bezos cant

[@jyothim558]

@ justin why , no he just can

[@starlessfae]

@@justinwhy6550 luckily mansa musa is worth four times more than bezos

[@justinwhy6550]

@@starlessfae bruh why reply to a 1 yr old comment

[@wellingtonharris7504]

1:16 on his side it was a Pizza Hut logo

[@bamsuth9650]

I like the artsyle of this video

[@chinguandfriends1800]

Awwww im so happy to see the reference for commander chris hadfield's space oddity😊😊😊

[@cyn_1]

Its not complete yet but already amazing

[@suyunlee8851]

Keeping the science advanced is so fun!!!!!!! The future for the universe is bright!!!!! I am happy........

[@Samantha-yy1in]

The first time I saw the ISS, I thought aliens XD

[@w9gb]

Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 did NOT visit the ISS. In fact, that shuttle was too heavy to achieve the 51.6° inclination of ISS. Inside Columbia Cargo Bay was debut flight of Spacehab’s “Double Research Module” (DRM). A replacement DRM was never rebuilt, and SpaceHab became Astrotech. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrotech_Corporation The Space Shuttles were used conducting scientific research beginning in 1983. BEFORE the ISS construction began in late 1998.

[@visheshgoyal5903]

collaboration is the answer to how we can make a utopia not competition

[@denzienmathew]

Loved it

[@PankajKumar-kh8vl]

One of the incredible achievement of mankind.

[@Crashed131963]

It's a oversized "SkyLab". It's orbit hugs earth. In 1972 they landed people on the moon ,that's what I,d like to see but im 47 years old and was not born then.

[@yaseerapatel3628]

*TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK*

[@shouryaarya8445]

Best video ever❤❤👍

[@user-ub3yv2yp3o]

Damn this animation is good

[@lexi11416]

I have seen the international space station it's like a star which moves so quickly it vanishes within half a min.

[@LalinDissanayaka]

I've seen it 3 times in my life, I never knew what it was till now.

[@chamliroshan4038]

Ooh really 😄

[@KC_FlightChief]

Look what we’re capable of when we all work together.

[@mrautistic2580]

very cool

[@dalebronniman7302]

The so called space shuttle at that time was a Concorde SST with ground effects and skirts that allow it to land under power but not fly.

[@abhaywadkar8951]

'Unity' has different sides of the same coin. It is on us, whether to decide as a curse or a boon. Lets unite for good!

[@anns666]

Probably the best part about going to Mars is to work together Hand in Hand instead of Hate and Killing each other

[@clvsidy]

Who’s watching during quarantine ?

[@sherthedugtrio_yt4590]

If I need noodles on "The International Space Station - ISS" it will very interesting! When the noodles fly in the ISS! XD

[@hoangynguyennhu5374]

I mistook it the first time for "How the International Play Station was built"

[@Dusty_Shoes]

Spotted it during the supermoon eclipse in the UK on Sunday ^_^

[@jakobreagan2592]

congrats on 6 mill

[@QuarkGamingLLC]

2:16 2001 Saw the arrival of Destiny. A year later they got the Taken King DLC.

[@kaustubha7371]

Thanks

[@MalaysianTropikfusion]

That animation... @.@

[@skdkxmcmkd7044]

I like it when all countries work together

[@shantanupanda1650]

inspiring music