ISS Video Downlink Archive

[Glaran K'erman]

Starting this month NASA will stop airing the daily SpaceStation Live program which follows the day to day activities of ISS. This is both good news and bad news, on one hand I absolutely loved the interviews and little details that were shared about the station, on the other it was starting to become a real bore-fest with the replaying of dull pre-packaged videos on "why the ISS matters". Of course it matters, we wouldn't be watching if we didn't already think it was cool...preaching to the choir folks. So in that regard I can respect the fact it is ending, but was very disappointed I wouldn't be able to see the downlinked video they would often play in the background.

Luckily I saw this! Apparently this has been around but I never knew of it. The videos are pretty much audio free and cover activities aboard the station such as unloading the recent Dragon delivery or Kate Rubins working with the heart cells experiment. This stuff is great if you are interested in a particular visiting vehicle or experiment as it contains a lot of usually unseen video such as on orbit Soyuz thruster test firings. The files are rather large for what you get though, maybe somebody can explain that to me...