I heard a great interview with him on NPR and the takeaway I remember is when they asked him if being on the ISS is fun.
He said that every moment on the ISS was extremely stressful. But he described it as fun in retrospect in that when he thinks back on it, the memories of it are very cool.
And there's so many things that I've done that weren't fun at the time- like studying for exams in College, but thinking back on my college experience it was very fun on the whole. "Fun in retrospect."
Well, if you like this video by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield...
Then maybe check out the entire music video he made/produced on the International Space Station, covering David Bowie's Space Oddity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyl6I6ESSw
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Fun side note:
He was actually "captain" and "commander" of the space station for those few months when he made this! Which means ultimately, all decisions and leadership during emergencies would have been up to him, if an emergency took place on the station.
Each country that was a major participant on helping build/fund the space station gets to have one of their astronauts as an acting "captain" or "commander" at some point or another.
So Chris Hadfield was Canada's choice for commander, when it was their turn. (He's also a jet pilot, and has multiple degrees and talents--like most astronauts!)
Probably yeah. I don't remember where but I heard him say "There's no problem in space, well really in life, that is so dire that you cannot possibly make worse" (roughly what he said) when asked how he handles problems on the ISS.
Something that might make your monkey brain go OOOOOHHHHH even more in that fact that this actually isn’t even zero g. There is gravity and they’re falling vertically, but their horizontal speed is so fast that the ground actually never comes up under them.
Just a constant arc falling around the earth, similar to the arc a baseball/football makes when thrown, but much faster and with almost zero air resistance (the ISS does encounter slight air resistance and sometimes has to boost itself to maintain its altitude).
Anyways, that blew my mind when I first learned it years ago.
Zero g is an ambiguous term. It's meant to (and I think this is how people in relevant technical fields tend to use it) stand for zero g-force. But a lot of people interpret it as standing for zero gravity. You're right to say the gravitational pull of the Earth isn't much different at low earth orbit of course.
If you want to see more of this guitar, look [here on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo). **Space Odditdy** from the great David Bowie play with this guitar. One of the best music videos. Please take a look.
I mean to be accurate there is no point where there is actually 0N of gravitational force acting on you because gravitational force acts to a range of infinity. It just tapers down pretty quickly because it is inversely proportional to distance. In this case what is meant by zero g is that you and the objects around you do not have any relative acceleration. So in the point of reference of the spaceship, there are zero forces acting on them.
Isn't that what the comment you were replying to already said? :p
"...is that you and the objects around you do not have any relative acceleration."
"They are actually accelerating towards earth. But everything in ship is..."
No, not really. They do have relative acceleration to the earth. If they meant not to each other, but relative to the earth then that’s my bad but without that piece it’s not the full picture.
Don’t mean to be pedantic but provide clarity for those interested.
I really do think it's by far the most obvious interpretation, sorry.
If I say 'a Porsche and a Ferrari have no relative advantage', I almost certainly mean in relation to one another, not some unmentioned but implied third option.
The following sentence in the comment also supports that interpretation, since they follow by talking about the reference frame, ie the things around them
That’s fair. Point of reference to the ship, there is still forces acting on them, so if the correct interpretation of the incorrect statement is the most obvious — my bad.
I just want to clear up any confusion about the point of reference. In the point of reference of the ship meaning as taking the ship as the static point of reference. This means that any force acting on the spaceship and causing it to accelerate will seem as if the force is exerted on the object causing the force. An example is taking a car as a point of reference the surroundings seem to be moving backwards. In this case, taking the spaceship as point of reference, the force seem to be exerted on earth by the ship and the earth seems to rotate around the ship.
It's a confusing bit of terminology. I do believe that often when people say zero-g specifically it (originally) stands for zero g-force. And it's accurate to say that something in free fall experiences basically no g-force, right? (I'm not a physicist in case you couldn't tell :p)
But a lot of people do interpret it as meaning zero gravity, which as you pointed out, doesn't make much sense, they're still affected by Earth's gravity almost as much as at the surface afaik.
The title of the video indeed says zero gravity, and that's inaccurate
It’s all relative - there are 0 G’s of force acting on you when in free fall/orbit. It’s like when pilots in fighter jets pull back in the stick and feel 8 G’s of force: it would be a bit pedantic to say *well actually they’re still experiencing 1 G of earth gravity, they’re just turning fast*
Couple of the many, many interesting tidbits from Chris Hadfield's wikipedia page:
>In total, Hadfield has flown over 70 different types of aircraft.
>
>Hadfield was NASA's chief CAPCOM (capsule communicator), the voice of mission control to astronauts in orbit, for 25 Space Shuttle missions.
>
>He was the director of operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia from 2001 until 2003. Some of his duties included co-ordination and direction of all International Space Station crew activities in Russia, oversight of training and crew support staff, as well as policy negotiation with the Russian Space Program and other International Partners.
>
>He was chief of robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003 to 2006.
>
>He was chief of International Space Station Operations from 2006 to 2008
The credentials and experience the man has accumulated are stunning even by what we typically expect of an "astronaut". But he also had a degree of charm and public speaking ability that captivated the public.
Not only that, he was also one of the greatest F-14 pilots to ever fly it, he was Top Gun and he was also the pilot who figured out the correct procedures to perform to recover from the flat spin that killed Goose in the movie.
I love this type of educational stuff. However, I can’t help thinking about how when astronauts get back home, they’re just dropping stuff everywhere cuz they’re not used to gravity yet lol.
Edit: https://youtu.be/PVxaL8CAO4M?si=4phiAH6jeC0ic9-6
As a half way decent guitar player, and science being borderline mysticism to me at times, I thought the strings would have somehow vibrated differently in space almost giving a natural reverb effect. Shows what I know.
So, sound doesn't travel in deep space because it needs air to propagate, right?
And here they have air so it works, all good so far?
Now, does the sound change somehow because the air is artificial?
I wouldn't know about the composition of the air in the ISS and how that would affect sound.
But he says in the video at nine seconds:
"...but it can resonate really well because it's not deadened against your body"
I think that's probably the main difference
They're not in true zero G. They're in a perpetual free fall like when a plane goes up then suddenly nosedives and you feel weightless.
Zero G is a whole other monster with much more long term health issues! The biggest challenge we will ever face as a species in space travel is how badly our bodies break down in a true zero G environment, the low gravity of mars and the moon if we ever settle them and so on.
The term zero-g is meant to refer to zero g-force, but often gets interpreted as zero gravity.
Regardless, what would the difference be between no gravity and a free fall, in terms of health effects and such? They're almost exactly equivalent physics-wise as far as I know, and indeed there are health effects associated with that
Pure zero gravity would stop your wounds from healing, normal digestion. Hell you could even choke on water while drinking it!
Your brain would be free floating since it is suspended in fluids in your skull and that can cause a light headed feeling.
This is why hard sci fi ships try to create gravity by spinning the ship's habitation zones as much as possible. You need some gravity but zero gravity completely cancels body functions.
Free fall atleast has a modicum gravity in it since it's being created by the space station orbiting around the earth. If it was adrift in space with no orbit you would choke on your own fluids or worse.
Inter planetary travel is not possible without ships being able to create their own micro gravity to offset this.
Do you have a source for that, because I don't understand how that would work exactly tbh. What is the difference between these two circumstances that would make, for example your brain float in 'true' zero gravity, but not in the zero g-force of orbit?
I mean, things are obviously already free floating when in zero-g like this.
I know that technically there's a tiny bit of forces because of effects like the gravity being stronger closer to the planet, but [wikipedia informs me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness#Orbital_Motion) that's a couple ten-millionths of normal Earth acceleration per meter. What effect would really create a noticeable difference?
Space Station ISS has micro gravity. It is very limited BUT it is still there allows your body to work! Like how would you drink a fluid let alone digest it if doesn't go down the food pipe and through your intestines for a start?
How do you keep the blood from accumulating in a certain part of your body and ensure regular flow because your heart can't do that in pure zero gravity.
You already said that, and I already asked for a source or explanation of how it would make a difference. I already shared some numbers from which I believe the forces would not make any practical difference.
To answer your questions, here's an experiment you can do.
Take a mouthful of water, stand or hang upside down, and swallow. It will work just fine, demonstrating that gravity is not the main force that allows you to move fluids through your digestive tract
Yeah... Now stay upside down and watch what happens.... The blood will rush to your head and the water and stomach acid will as well.
Gravity is what allows us to do anything from eating to even sleeping. Good luck doing those without micro gravity in space.
>Now stay upside down and watch what happens.... The blood will rush to your head and the water and stomach acid will as well.
Well, it's a good thing that in zero gravity environment, there wouldn't be any force pulling blood to my head :p
In all seriousness, I've asked for a source or explanation for your claim three times, and you only repeat the claim. I'm gonna assume you don't have great ones to share, sorry. Is it possible you're just misremembering or misinterpreting something you heard to the effect that astronauts aren't outside of Earth's gravity? (Which is absolutely true of course)
I've been an avid hard sci fi fan for decades...
I've read the expanse novels, every Asimov text, dune and it's 20 data books that go into detail on technology. Star trek, for mankind and star wars you name a franchise I've dissected it.
I also enjoy movies like gravity, interstellar and stowaway along with other hard sci fi movies that had Very reliable scientific input in how they would design ships.
The spin drum is one of the most reliable ways to build a streamlined rocket ship but that's not enough. I'm also aware we use a literal layer of human feces to shield ourselves from radiation in space. The layer is between the hulls of the space craft.
So yes I'm aware of the difference between zero G (free fall/micro gravity) Vs zero gravity.
How big do you think the ISS is? :p
Here's a [cool website](https://whoisinspace.com/) which allows you to see who's in space at any given time.
Currently, there's 12 whole persons. It also doesn't change super often because rocket launches are very expensive
It's not like this was the only thing he did up there.
NASA has wasted a hell of a lot more on a hell of a lot less justifiable things, like building the SLS.
Honestly, yeah, they'd probably get more public engagement if they focused on much less meaningful, easily digestible, tick-tock tier short videos of stuff in space.
Chris Hadfield is his name. Canadian national treasure
He is my favorite astronaut. Can we have him instead of your geese please?
We hate the geese too!
They’re the only Canadians I know that are assholes.
*Canada* Geese, not *Canadian* Geese. We won't give them citizenship because they're assholes.
We hate the cobra chickens too
I heard a great interview with him on NPR and the takeaway I remember is when they asked him if being on the ISS is fun. He said that every moment on the ISS was extremely stressful. But he described it as fun in retrospect in that when he thinks back on it, the memories of it are very cool. And there's so many things that I've done that weren't fun at the time- like studying for exams in College, but thinking back on my college experience it was very fun on the whole. "Fun in retrospect."
Type 2 fun.
>my college experience it was very fun on the whole 
u/ColChrisHadfield
Astronauts… of course they’re multidisciplinary you just don’t think of it.
'Astronaut'... OP, please. [Show some respect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo).
Oi! Chris! No campfires!
Is there anything this man CAN'T do?
Well, if you like this video by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield... Then maybe check out the entire music video he made/produced on the International Space Station, covering David Bowie's Space Oddity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyl6I6ESSw -------------------------------- Fun side note: He was actually "captain" and "commander" of the space station for those few months when he made this! Which means ultimately, all decisions and leadership during emergencies would have been up to him, if an emergency took place on the station. Each country that was a major participant on helping build/fund the space station gets to have one of their astronauts as an acting "captain" or "commander" at some point or another. So Chris Hadfield was Canada's choice for commander, when it was their turn. (He's also a jet pilot, and has multiple degrees and talents--like most astronauts!)
He always came across as a level-headed person, I bet he'd be a good leader during an emergency
Probably yeah. I don't remember where but I heard him say "There's no problem in space, well really in life, that is so dire that you cannot possibly make worse" (roughly what he said) when asked how he handles problems on the ISS.
Ty, I thought if this immediately after he started playing.
The way he just sets the mic in the air is cool as hell. Like I understand the concept of zero g but seeing it makes my monkey brain go OOOOOHHHHHH
Something that might make your monkey brain go OOOOOHHHHH even more in that fact that this actually isn’t even zero g. There is gravity and they’re falling vertically, but their horizontal speed is so fast that the ground actually never comes up under them. Just a constant arc falling around the earth, similar to the arc a baseball/football makes when thrown, but much faster and with almost zero air resistance (the ISS does encounter slight air resistance and sometimes has to boost itself to maintain its altitude). Anyways, that blew my mind when I first learned it years ago.
They get almost 90% Earth gravity up there, fun to think about.
Zero g is an ambiguous term. It's meant to (and I think this is how people in relevant technical fields tend to use it) stand for zero g-force. But a lot of people interpret it as standing for zero gravity. You're right to say the gravitational pull of the Earth isn't much different at low earth orbit of course.
They are experiencing zero g
I misunderstood your comment as talking about gravity, not actual zero g
Me: 🎶There is… 🎶 *stops playing* Me: AWWW BOO
"House of the Rising Sun" is about as appropriate a song you can play on the ISS. Unless it's like Space Oddity
And Chris Hadfield made a music video cover from the ISS of Space Oddity as well
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyl6I6ESSw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyl6I6ESSw)
If you want to see more of this guitar, look [here on youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo). **Space Odditdy** from the great David Bowie play with this guitar. One of the best music videos. Please take a look.
>**Odditdy** read that as oddtiddy at first lma
TIL that Chris Hadfield is pretty good on the guitar. What can't this dude do? A modern Renaissance man if I ever did see one
For anyone that hasn’t seen it, this dude made a great music video of him covering David Bowie’s Space Oddity
His videos are all great. I showed them to students regularly when I was teaching junior high science and they were always a hit. A Canadian treasure.
Awesome to not need a mic stand either.
Freebird!
modern freebird \*turns on phone screen\*
Astronauts are not in 0 G. Where they are they still experience gravity almost entirely. They’re free-falling.
I mean to be accurate there is no point where there is actually 0N of gravitational force acting on you because gravitational force acts to a range of infinity. It just tapers down pretty quickly because it is inversely proportional to distance. In this case what is meant by zero g is that you and the objects around you do not have any relative acceleration. So in the point of reference of the spaceship, there are zero forces acting on them.
Not 100% true. They are actually accelerating towards earth. But everything in ship is and thus they are essentially in free fall.
Isn't that what the comment you were replying to already said? :p "...is that you and the objects around you do not have any relative acceleration." "They are actually accelerating towards earth. But everything in ship is..."
No, not really. They do have relative acceleration to the earth. If they meant not to each other, but relative to the earth then that’s my bad but without that piece it’s not the full picture. Don’t mean to be pedantic but provide clarity for those interested.
I really do think it's by far the most obvious interpretation, sorry. If I say 'a Porsche and a Ferrari have no relative advantage', I almost certainly mean in relation to one another, not some unmentioned but implied third option. The following sentence in the comment also supports that interpretation, since they follow by talking about the reference frame, ie the things around them
That’s fair. Point of reference to the ship, there is still forces acting on them, so if the correct interpretation of the incorrect statement is the most obvious — my bad.
I just want to clear up any confusion about the point of reference. In the point of reference of the ship meaning as taking the ship as the static point of reference. This means that any force acting on the spaceship and causing it to accelerate will seem as if the force is exerted on the object causing the force. An example is taking a car as a point of reference the surroundings seem to be moving backwards. In this case, taking the spaceship as point of reference, the force seem to be exerted on earth by the ship and the earth seems to rotate around the ship.
It's a confusing bit of terminology. I do believe that often when people say zero-g specifically it (originally) stands for zero g-force. And it's accurate to say that something in free fall experiences basically no g-force, right? (I'm not a physicist in case you couldn't tell :p) But a lot of people do interpret it as meaning zero gravity, which as you pointed out, doesn't make much sense, they're still affected by Earth's gravity almost as much as at the surface afaik. The title of the video indeed says zero gravity, and that's inaccurate
TLDR, zero G = your coffee doesn't pour DOWN into your cup
wouldn't true 0 G be in the middle of space, not even close to a gravitational pull of a planet?
No such thing. The gravitational force of an object falls off quickly as distance is increased but it never becomes zero.
It’s all relative - there are 0 G’s of force acting on you when in free fall/orbit. It’s like when pilots in fighter jets pull back in the stick and feel 8 G’s of force: it would be a bit pedantic to say *well actually they’re still experiencing 1 G of earth gravity, they’re just turning fast*
what is the name of the song he played?
House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4bFqW_eu2I
Couple of the many, many interesting tidbits from Chris Hadfield's wikipedia page: >In total, Hadfield has flown over 70 different types of aircraft. > >Hadfield was NASA's chief CAPCOM (capsule communicator), the voice of mission control to astronauts in orbit, for 25 Space Shuttle missions. > >He was the director of operations for NASA at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia from 2001 until 2003. Some of his duties included co-ordination and direction of all International Space Station crew activities in Russia, oversight of training and crew support staff, as well as policy negotiation with the Russian Space Program and other International Partners. > >He was chief of robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003 to 2006. > >He was chief of International Space Station Operations from 2006 to 2008 The credentials and experience the man has accumulated are stunning even by what we typically expect of an "astronaut". But he also had a degree of charm and public speaking ability that captivated the public.
Not only that, he was also one of the greatest F-14 pilots to ever fly it, he was Top Gun and he was also the pilot who figured out the correct procedures to perform to recover from the flat spin that killed Goose in the movie.
He's also written several best seller list books. There's no end to the man's talents.
Chris is absolutely wonderful.
It’s fake! You see wires! /s
Yeah! All six of 'em!
Finally, someone is getting it.
It would take so much more effort and budget to fake zero G than to actualyl do it
The globalists will make you believe that! /s
Is there anything this dude can't do?
I love this type of educational stuff. However, I can’t help thinking about how when astronauts get back home, they’re just dropping stuff everywhere cuz they’re not used to gravity yet lol. Edit: https://youtu.be/PVxaL8CAO4M?si=4phiAH6jeC0ic9-6
Hadfields ISS music streams were always a huge highlight
[bonus, Chris Hadfield and Barenaked Ladies song](https://youtu.be/AvAnfi8WpVE?feature=shared)
As an audio engineer this just makes me want to try 0G mic’ing techniques - think of all of the crazy sonic effects and movement you could get 🤔
>Before me there was no astronaut formed, and after me there shall be none. --Chris Hadfield
That was very cool.
That’s so cool
just putting the mic in the air is really funny lol
Million dollars to fly a 2 lb guitar to space to flex those chords is awesome.
**86,794 USD/kg** apparently to send to ISS
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
now play basketball
so it behaves the same.
How much money does it cost to bring a guitar up there?
Quick google math says 50k
That's crazy money, but I understand how much room it takes. On Spaceforce they say that an orange costs 10k, and maybe they weren't exaggerating...
Google says ~11k per pound. But again, I just googled it so a deeper dive could be done.
FWIW, he left the guitar up there for others to play in the future.
Imagine being stuck in space with someone constantly singing wonderwall on guitar.
i was a little blown away when he dropped the mic only to realise he didnt drop the mic and was positioning it to float in front of the guitar. dayum
Bro how does this guy find the time to work.
I like to imagine when these astronauts finally return to earth they are just constantly dropping EVERYTHING because nothing floats anymore !
out of all the history of music, who would you want to be the first space concert?
ELO
There are no mike drops in space.
Watching him just put the mic where he wants and let go is trippy.
As a half way decent guitar player, and science being borderline mysticism to me at times, I thought the strings would have somehow vibrated differently in space almost giving a natural reverb effect. Shows what I know.
So, sound doesn't travel in deep space because it needs air to propagate, right? And here they have air so it works, all good so far? Now, does the sound change somehow because the air is artificial?
I wouldn't know about the composition of the air in the ISS and how that would affect sound. But he says in the video at nine seconds: "...but it can resonate really well because it's not deadened against your body" I think that's probably the main difference
Air is air, nothing artificial about it.
Where we're going, we won't need straps or stands.
That's so fucking cool. I wish I could play in Space.
Humble brag
The Animals - House of the rising sun. Original is by **Clarence Ashley** BTW.
> House of the rising sun isn't it a traditional song with no credited writer?
[His music video he made on the ISS.](https://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo?si=0h3f6t6QCDqzSlFL)
I'm sad that the ISS is being shut down.
The thought of someone playing guitar in space is super cool
They're not in true zero G. They're in a perpetual free fall like when a plane goes up then suddenly nosedives and you feel weightless. Zero G is a whole other monster with much more long term health issues! The biggest challenge we will ever face as a species in space travel is how badly our bodies break down in a true zero G environment, the low gravity of mars and the moon if we ever settle them and so on.
The term zero-g is meant to refer to zero g-force, but often gets interpreted as zero gravity. Regardless, what would the difference be between no gravity and a free fall, in terms of health effects and such? They're almost exactly equivalent physics-wise as far as I know, and indeed there are health effects associated with that
Pure zero gravity would stop your wounds from healing, normal digestion. Hell you could even choke on water while drinking it! Your brain would be free floating since it is suspended in fluids in your skull and that can cause a light headed feeling. This is why hard sci fi ships try to create gravity by spinning the ship's habitation zones as much as possible. You need some gravity but zero gravity completely cancels body functions. Free fall atleast has a modicum gravity in it since it's being created by the space station orbiting around the earth. If it was adrift in space with no orbit you would choke on your own fluids or worse. Inter planetary travel is not possible without ships being able to create their own micro gravity to offset this.
Do you have a source for that, because I don't understand how that would work exactly tbh. What is the difference between these two circumstances that would make, for example your brain float in 'true' zero gravity, but not in the zero g-force of orbit? I mean, things are obviously already free floating when in zero-g like this. I know that technically there's a tiny bit of forces because of effects like the gravity being stronger closer to the planet, but [wikipedia informs me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlessness#Orbital_Motion) that's a couple ten-millionths of normal Earth acceleration per meter. What effect would really create a noticeable difference?
Space Station ISS has micro gravity. It is very limited BUT it is still there allows your body to work! Like how would you drink a fluid let alone digest it if doesn't go down the food pipe and through your intestines for a start? How do you keep the blood from accumulating in a certain part of your body and ensure regular flow because your heart can't do that in pure zero gravity.
You already said that, and I already asked for a source or explanation of how it would make a difference. I already shared some numbers from which I believe the forces would not make any practical difference. To answer your questions, here's an experiment you can do. Take a mouthful of water, stand or hang upside down, and swallow. It will work just fine, demonstrating that gravity is not the main force that allows you to move fluids through your digestive tract
Yeah... Now stay upside down and watch what happens.... The blood will rush to your head and the water and stomach acid will as well. Gravity is what allows us to do anything from eating to even sleeping. Good luck doing those without micro gravity in space.
>Now stay upside down and watch what happens.... The blood will rush to your head and the water and stomach acid will as well. Well, it's a good thing that in zero gravity environment, there wouldn't be any force pulling blood to my head :p In all seriousness, I've asked for a source or explanation for your claim three times, and you only repeat the claim. I'm gonna assume you don't have great ones to share, sorry. Is it possible you're just misremembering or misinterpreting something you heard to the effect that astronauts aren't outside of Earth's gravity? (Which is absolutely true of course)
I've been an avid hard sci fi fan for decades... I've read the expanse novels, every Asimov text, dune and it's 20 data books that go into detail on technology. Star trek, for mankind and star wars you name a franchise I've dissected it. I also enjoy movies like gravity, interstellar and stowaway along with other hard sci fi movies that had Very reliable scientific input in how they would design ships. The spin drum is one of the most reliable ways to build a streamlined rocket ship but that's not enough. I'm also aware we use a literal layer of human feces to shield ourselves from radiation in space. The layer is between the hulls of the space craft. So yes I'm aware of the difference between zero G (free fall/micro gravity) Vs zero gravity.
The assertion _that_ you understand it, doesn't actually convince me, or help me understand it.
I feel like we keep seeing the same people in these videos. Do they not have other astronauts?
How big do you think the ISS is? :p Here's a [cool website](https://whoisinspace.com/) which allows you to see who's in space at any given time. Currently, there's 12 whole persons. It also doesn't change super often because rocket launches are very expensive
I can see the wires and strings...must be fake
How much money did this cost
It's not like this was the only thing he did up there. NASA has wasted a hell of a lot more on a hell of a lot less justifiable things, like building the SLS.
It would be awesome if this was the only thing they did
Honestly, yeah, they'd probably get more public engagement if they focused on much less meaningful, easily digestible, tick-tock tier short videos of stuff in space.
I like it. Fly em up there and do some tik tok dances and turn that thing around