They are getting ready to blow up part of the ISS!


They are getting ready to blow up part of the ISS!

And by "blow up", I mean "inflate". 😎

And for folks here in sandgroper country, that's 5:30PM local.


Originally shared by NASA

Set your alarms! Get live updates from Mission Control as the 1st human-rated expandable habitat is deployed to full size. Tune in to NASA Television tomorrow starting at 5:30 a.m. EDT: http://nasa.tumblr.com/post/144865039409/more-spacein-space

Comments

  1. Stephen Gunnell26 May 2016 at 13:05

    Unfortunately NASA only uses Adobe Flash for their movies and TV channel.

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  2. Rob Masters26 May 2016 at 13:39

    Still? I thought it was a MPEG4 stream now.

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  3. Stephen Gunnell26 May 2016 at 14:43

    I tried earlier today.

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  4. Rob Masters26 May 2016 at 15:21

    😞

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  5. Stephen Gunnell27 May 2016 at 13:56

    It failed to inflate anyway ... nothing to see here ... move along.

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  6. Elaine Walker27 May 2016 at 20:48

    Who would have thought it so difficult to inflate a balloon in space?

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  7. Elaine Walker27 May 2016 at 20:49

    Well, I don't know about the inflating thing but I can see the ISS live feed and NASA tv via Ustream on my iphone and my iphone don't do flash

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