Categories: Space Station

Take a Virtual 3-D Spacewalk Outside the International Space Station

The International Space Station in March 2009 as seen from the departing STS-119 space shuttle Discovery crew. Credit: NASA/ESA

Time to pull out your 3-D glasses (the red-blue kind works the best) and take a virtual spacewalk with this new video from ESA. It gives you that “Gravity”-type experience — without the spinning. But as you travel around on your jetpack, this VR video gives you a good appreciation for the size of the ISS. You also get to watch a Soyuz spacecraft undock and the docking of an Automated Transfer Vehicle.

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy has been with Universe Today since 2004, and has published over 6,000 articles on space exploration, astronomy, science and technology. She is the author of two books: "Eight Years to the Moon: the History of the Apollo Missions," (2019) which shares the stories of 60 engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make landing on the Moon possible; and "Incredible Stories from Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos" (2016) tells the stories of those who work on NASA's robotic missions to explore the Solar System and beyond. Follow Nancy on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Nancy_A and and Instagram at and https://www.instagram.com/nancyatkinson_ut/