As long as "Interstellar" is still science
fiction, the International Space Station offers the best window into what life
off-Earth is like, in addition to being the best place around to film an epic
music video.
As Chris Hadfield's famous Bowie rendition demonstrates, the
crews of international astronauts that have lived on the space station have
always been keen to try and convey what the experience is like to the rest of
us on Earth without the rocket power to escape the persistent bondage of
gravity.
To that end, NASA astronaut Don Pettit shot this footage
aboard the ISS back in 2012 using a 3D camera. The floating tour takes you
through the confined interior of the station, but the most spectacular views
come when Pettit points the camera outside for views of a Russian Soyuz capsule
docked to the station above, well...us.
But the really insane clip posted online this week from the
astronauts' adventures in microgravity 3D cinematography is the below video
that shows how water behaves on board the International Space Station.
Taking advantage of surface tension that causes water to
"ball up" rather than bead up like it might on a nonpermeable surface
on Earth, the team creates a softball-size sphere of water. They then insert a
GoPro camera into the floating water bubble to get a view from the inside out.
It is a little mind-bending to watch.
Check it out for yourself. You will need red-blue
stereoscopic 3D vision glasses to view the video as it is intended to be seen,
or you can watch a regular 2D version here.






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