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HOW IT WORKS The International Space Station documentary HD 1080p - Duration: 28:58.
hello I'm Sonny Williams I'm up here on the International Space Station
so this is no - this is a really cool module of course most of these modules
you'll see they have four sides and they're put together that way we could
sort of walk work on a flat plane either a wall the floor another wall or the
ceiling but you know again all you have to do is turn yourself and your
reference changes the reason I'm bringing that up is because this is
where four out of six of us sleep and so people always ask about sleeping in
space do you lie down are you in a bed not really because it doesn't matter you
don't really have the sensation of lying down you just sit in your sleeping bag
so here's one sleep station right here I'm going in right now you can follow me
if you want
so I'm inside it's sort of like a little phone booth but it's pretty comfy I've
got a sleeping bag right here that we sleep in so we don't have a sort of like
a little bit of a cover we don't fly all over the place but you know you can
sleep in any orientation I have it sleeping feeling like I'm standing up
right now but like you saw I'm on the floor but it doesn't matter if I turn
over and I sleep upside down I can't have it I don't have any sensation in my
head that tells me that I'm upside down so it really doesn't matter the sleep
station is also like a little office we've got a computer in here as you can
see we've got a couple little toys I've got some books I've got some clothes and
other things that make it sort of like home I'm coming out and just for
reference that's one sleep station this one's
another
right here there's one on the ceiling if you want to call it right here and then
there's a fourth on the other wall over here
so all of us sleep in a little bit of a circle all right come on back there's
more to show you
I know that there's some questions about how to use the bathroom
and how do you actually live in space like normal like at home I mentioned
real quickly about getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth and
washing your face well how do you do that well here is the bathroom
essentially you get up in the morning and we have a little kit and it has all
the essential things that you need like your a toothbrush and toothpaste and
brush see how see how much better the brush makes my hair look I'm just joking
it still stands up straight it doesn't matter where you are it's always going
to stand up straight while you're up in space a lot of people ask about
toothbrush and toothpaste so luckily enough toothpaste you can do it outside
right this way it's sticky and so it sticks to your toothbrush no problem
another cool thing is that water sticks to your toothbrush too
you can see it I'll have some water come out and water is pretty neat up in space
it'll stick to your toothbrush and it will make
a big bubble
and that's just by surface tension
and then you can drink it so a lot of people ask about
what do you do with the toothpaste after you brush your teeth
two options swallow it and it's sort of like
mouthwash but it tastes a little gross or you can
just spit it out in a paper towel and then you don't have to worry about it
the only thing I wouldn't recommend at home I'm only up here for four months so
it's not that bad
one of the most pressing questions about using the living in space of course is
the bathroom so let's take a look at that little piece of work come on and
here we are at the throne this is awesome you might see the little you
might have noticed a little moon on the outside this is our orbital outhouse
right here
and of course it serves for two functions number two right here I'll
show you but you see it's pretty small so you have to have pretty good aim and
you'll be ready to make sure things get let go the right direction and it smells
a little bit so I'm closing it up and that's of course for number two and this
guy right here is for number one so there's sort of two slightly separate
functions but you can do a little Sasebo pie hanging on right here and doing
number one and number two I might add it's color coded so you really don't get
it mixed up which is nice this is yellows for number one and also there's
a selection of paper people always ask about toilet paper what do you do with
toilet paper what kind of toilet paper do you have we have gloves just because
sometimes it does get messy we have some Russian wipes which are a little bit
coarse if you like the coarse type of toilet paper we have some nice tissues
which are nice and soft if you like soft toilet paper
we have Huggies just for any cleanup you know we're all babies once and this sort
of helps and then if things get really out of control we have
disinfectant wipes just to make sure we clean up here because you know just like
the water I showed you the number one stuff can sort of go all over the place
if you don't aim correctly and did I mention both of these have a little bit
of section so they shouldn't keep things going in the right direction but like I
said sometimes things get a little out of control if you are out of control
yourself flying around so we have lots of protective stuff and of course you do
have your privacy there's a little door
so other people know that you're in there
here's a pretty cool place this is sort of like in your house where everybody
meets in the morning after you wash your face brush your teeth you want to find
something for breakfast and this is our kitchen
you might notice there's all sorts of foods here it's like opening the
refrigerator you've got all your different stuff that you want to have
drinks meats eggs vegetables cereals bread snacks and that's a good place
that's where you find all the candy side dishes and then some little power bars
just in case so we have all this type of food some of it is dehydrated and so we
have to hydrate it fill it up with water some of it is already made and then all
we have to do is heat it up so something like this I'm pulling out barbecued beef
brisket pretty yummy not only is this food made in the US but we also have
food here from Japan we've got Russian food as you can see
all these red containers are filled with food that's from Russia and then we get
some of our specialty stuff some things that we like some of our favorite stuff
that your family can send up in fact I like fluffernutter's and so I got sent
up some fluff so I could make my fluffernutter with peanut butter so you
have a lot of food up here no problems no want to say where we are so right now
we're in the Japanese laboratory it's one laboratory out of many here on the
International Space Station it's actually on the left-hand side if I was
the International Space Station and I was flying through space like this
my left hand would be where the Japanese laboratory is
so now again we're on the right-hand side all the way on the right of the
International Space Station this is Columbus the European module it has
science experiments all over you could see it looks a little bit crowded and
here we do a lot of our medical experiments
here we are in the u.s. laboratory again this is a laboratory with science
experience on all of the walls here all sorts of stuff that we do and one of the
things we also do is we exercise we have some exercise equipment on board the
space station we need to do that because we lose bone density and muscle mass
while we're up here and that's a result of not having to fight against gravity
so how we keep ourselves in shape are with a bike a treadmill and a
weightlifting machine this is the bike you notice the clip the pedals so all
you need to do is actually clip your feet in and then you can start pedaling
you don't need a seat because you don't sit down actually I haven't sat down for
six months now so you don't need any any type of seat just make sure your you're
held in with your pedals you probably see that the bike bounces around a
little bit as I move it it's not steady and held to the wall firmly and the
reason for that is the space station is pretty big you saw
that there's also solar arrays on the space station if we start putting any
forces into the space station it's going to make those solar rays bounce around a
little bit so to prevent that the machines bounce around a little bit move
around a little bit and that way we don't put any forces on to the structure
of the spacecraft out to the solar arrays all right a little farther on
come on I'm here with my two buddies in the airlock actually these are two
spacesuits that are ready primed up to go outside as we call it to go do a
spacewalk in case we have to do any thing outside some of the things we do
outsiders just like inside repairs we have a lot of electrical boxes and
machinery in solar arrays in fact that I talked about earlier that are outside
and sometimes they don't work quite right remember space is really cold and
really hot and it's also the vacuum of space with no pressure and so some of
the equipment doesn't work well all the time so we might have to go out and do a
spacewalk right behind me is actually the hatch that you go out into space and
right now we have it filled up with a couple other spacesuits because we've
got four of them up here and some of our tools but right behind here is the hatch
in which you actually go right outside into the vacuum of space the spacesuit
is pretty big as you can see it's like being a football player part of the
reason it's so big and bulky is because of this backside this backpack it's like
going on a hike with a backpack but the backpack and the suit weighs about 300
pounds luckily in space nothing really weighs anything so you
don't feel that it's so heavy but we need to have such a big suit because
that guy back there is essentially the heart of the space craft this I call
this actually a spacecraft it has all the oxygen for you it has all the carbon
dioxide removal system for you it also has a heating and cooling system to make
sure to regulate our body temperatures while we're outside it also has a
computer so it tells you on a display here if there's anything that is
going wrong with the suit if we're running out of oxygen if we have too
much carbon dioxide or any type of electrical problem so it's a pretty
awesome little spacecraft and actually got to go out use my spacecraft a little
spacecraft a couple times and it worked like a charm lucky that it works very
nice you might want to see what the helmet looks like it's pretty cool too
we don't usually go out like this so you usually can see when the helmets
open so you can see what it looks like inside somebody's little head would be
inside of here so you can see you can turn your head all the way around while
you're inside of there but the helmet stays still so that's determined your
your how far you could see and it's usually pretty sunny out there so we
have to wear our sunglasses and this is our sunglasses right here which make you
look pretty cool
it's like a glass-bottom boat this is the cupola it stick sticks down below
the space station it's one of those places you find yourself hanging out and
all the time because all you want to do is look back at our planet I think some
questions I had were about what are you doing your free time and you can't help
but want to just come to the cupola and look outside as much as you can and a
lot of folks I play this game with myself about where we're flying over the
earth try to come in here and just guess after being here for a little while you
can sort of figure it out you can tell different cloud types over different
continents you can tell different soil types over different continents so let's
see and then of course there's a lot of ocean so usually we're over the ocean at
first glance I will tell you in just a moment where we are
what there we go so right now we are right
over Africa it's a little bit cloudy as you can tell so we're right over the
continent of Africa hey what's that I think that's a Soyuz spacecraft that's
the spacecraft that's taking us home to Planet Earth today oh my gosh we might
have to go take a look at that that's pretty cool
it's a little bit smaller than the rest of the spacecraft the space station so
you'll see if we get go there it will be a little bit more cramped so we're going
you can look all the way back to the back of the spacecraft which is where
the Russian segment is and then you could look all the way forward to the
front of the spacecraft where the where the Japanese laboratory the European
laboratory and the American laboratory are and then back to the solar arrays
where we started in the this morning when we were looking out the Japanese
window
so other questions that were here are what would you recommend is a job if
into what type of person would want to be an astronaut I think people who would
like to explore of course people who like math and science that's what this
is all about that we have people in the office who are doctors teachers
veterinarians engineers pilots so all sorts of people become astronauts and I
think if you could you see it's just sort of cool so I think people who like
to do a little adventure and like to do cool stuff probably usually become
astronauts hey one thing I didn't show you or I talked about but I didn't show
you was the exercise one another piece of exercise device which is the advanced
resistive exercise and that's what this is right here this is a red and you
could probably see this bar and just do a little bit of maneuvering here stand
by you have to set it up just like at any other gyms
show you how this works
so you can see you can change your attitude just by going from one module
to the next going up from the cupola down here this is what we call the a red
and with this you can lift weights based on vacuum in these cylinders just like
you do at home at a gym for example if I wanted to do a squat I could do it like
this gain some weight on this thing I'm not lifting with anything so it's 30
it's too easy one of the cool things you could do you could do things that you
can't do at home for example single leg squats with just one leg because the
other leg you won't fall over so all sorts of stuff you can also do bench
press we have a bench that we could add on here so you can work on your beach
muscles
hey Aki what are you doing down there
this is one of the cool things about space - it sort of looks like there's a
big old hole here but you don't even think twice about it you could just jump
over the hole or if you want you can go jump into the hole I'm coming down come
right back up again like Superman we were lucky we have a
really cool big Space Station that you can fly around and that's actually
called the PMM you might have saw it out the window is a big silver canister
what's really great about that is it's essentially our closet in our pantry or
whatever you want to call it we have extra food down there we have
extra clothes we actually throw the trash out down there so it's nice and
organized and we have all of our stuff that we need while we're working in all
these other modules all stowed in this location down here and it's a lot of fun
to play in so we're going into the Russian segment be ready you don't need
a passport either
it goes a lot farther back than this we'll go take a trip and say hello to
the boys down there in just a minute but let's do that first actually and then
we'll go down to the Soyuz at the very end this is your Guinea doing a little
tour this is the FGB and what's cool about this module it is
actually the very first piece of the space station that came up in 1998 the
space station has been around for about now man for 12 years but it's been up in
space for about 14 years and this was the very first it is like the Russians
pmm it has a lot of storage as you can see
mochila scream I am chicken
so here we are in the heart of the space station really this is the service mall
module this is the central post in case we had any problems I know when a couple
of the questions are about what type of things do you have to worry about and
some of the things we have to worry about in space are fire if we had a fire
if we had a depressurization like we're kid by a micrometeorite and they made a
hole or if we had some type of toxic atmosphere we use ammonia for our
radiator so there is a possibility that ammonia could come into the vehicle and
then it would be bad for all of us if we have any of those problems we come right
here which we call the central post it is the main heart of the space station
it was also the first computers that came up here that ran the space station
so behind this wall right here are these main computers so we gather here as a
group of three or six and then figure out how we're gonna either fight the
fire patch the hole or solve the the toxic spill and what's cool about this
module of course it's the central post it also has great windows right down
toward Earth it has controls to fly in visiting
spacecraft if they some assistance right here it has
Russian computers as well as American computers to help us control anything we
need to on the space station it's a cup of our crewmates back there I'll live
Oleg Novitsky on the right and during launching Co on the left and there's
also a second bathroom here which is really cool because six of us going to
but one bathroom is really tough and so there's one bathroom here and one
bathroom on the other side where I showed you and you can probably see on
the wall behind a leg and Yuri some of the heroes of the space program
Korolev Sergei Korolev who was a chief designer of putting men into space and
of course on the right hand side Yuri Gagarin the first man
this reminds us of our roots
Yuriy what are you doing still deal it making coffee
black coffee
looks good
okay spasiba we're going to check out our stories
real quick make sure it's ready to go all right
back to the Soyuz
I'm going to I'm going to stop here just for a quick second you can see on the
Russian spacecraft there's also other modules that stick out down and above
right here is let's see I'm trying to be oriented that's a place where we do
spacewalks for in for the Russians the Russian side there's Russian spacesuits
in here and also a visiting vehicle which brought fruits and vegetables and
becomes a trash container when we undock upon this side is also a future place
where they're going to do spacewalks from and connected to it is Kevin's a
legs and you're Ginny's Soyuz spacecraft and that was go see ours Venezia at the
probe kheh
coming down
it's a little tricky getting in here
this is the docking probe right here this big thing this helps us connect to
the spacecraft this probe actually sticks into this cone
and that's how the spacecraft this our Soyuz becomes connected to the ISS
initially that is then replaced by clamps which are around here that will
allow the two spacecraft to be stuck together and then you can remove the
probe in the cone
all right so here we are in the store use this is what we call the vet oh the
living compartment bit the boy up set in Russian it also has a little bathroom
it's not as good as the other bathrooms so we try not to use it too much
it has drinking water in it if we need something to drink and then of course
it's filled up with a lot of cargo for us
for us bringing up and also bringing back down it has a second purpose when
it comes back to earth it serves as garbage container during the descent
will will get rid of this this area right here and everything that's in it
will just burn up as it's coming into the atmosphere so that way we can get
rid of a little bit of trash but the main area where we were on launch and
where we are going to be on descent is down here because we're not part of the
trash so we're in a safe place so we're in the descent module si
it's a little small but you can get in
I'm not sure how well you could see in here slow down for a second I'm going to
turn it up this way just so you could see the hatch and you can see Kevin it's
a little bit small but we'll come in and show you around
you coming in okay
you got to move a couple things we were just starting to get ready we're
preparing a couple days ago for our ride home it's a little bit squishy but
everybody asks how do you sit in the Soyuz and you sort of sit in your seat
like this seat is molded to your body and so you can just sort of squish in
here and be pretty relaxed everybody has a handmade seat for them and then of
course there's a control panel and that's where we do most of our actions
and work right here there's hand controllers which you can fly the
vehicle with and there's a stick right here primarily used for communications
when we're trying to talk to the ground so three of us fit in here like I said
it's a little squishy but somehow it seems like we all managed to get in here
and and fit pretty well and it's a pretty safe ride home you're probably
wondering what's all this junk behind us well it's all of our parachute first of
all and then it's all of our survival gear just in case we end up landing in
some strange place on the planet and nobody's there to rescue us right away
we have all sorts of survival gear with us keeping us safe in here so they've
pretty much thought of everything and we'll be home on the planet within
the next 12 hours pretty shocked
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