Street View Mapping of the International Space Station

Take a step aboard the International Space Station with  Street View

Thomas Pesquet, Astronaut at the European Space Agency (ESA), spent six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer. He returned to Earth in June 2017, in this post he tells us about what it’s like to live on the ISS and his experience capturing Street View imagery in zero gravity.

Behind the Scenes: Mapping the International Space Station with Google Street View  

Since 2001, astronauts have been working and living on the ISS, a structure made up of 15 connected modules that floats 250 miles above Earth. The ISS acts as a base for space exploration—possible future missions to the Moon,Mars and asteroids—and gives us a unique perspective on Earth itself. We can collect data on the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and land surface. We can conduct experiments and studies that we wouldn’t be able to do from Earth, like monitoring how the human body reacts to microgravity, solving mysteries of the immune system, studying  cyclones in order to alert populations and governments when a storm is approaching, or monitoring marine litter—the rapidly increasing amount of waste found in our oceans.

June 23, 2012 — Mountain View, Ca

The Computer History Museum (CHM), the world’s leading institution exploring the history of computing and its ongoing impact on society, today announced the launch of a new exhibit on the history of Google Maps with Street View and other “surrogate travel” systems.

Called “Going Places: A History of Google Maps with Street View”, the exhibit shows how street views have transformed our ideas about going places, from faraway lands to a restaurant across town. While computerized “movie maps” go back 35 years, today’s connected computer power is turning tools that were once the province of artists and visionaries into a part of everyday life.

Visitors will get to sit inside a Street View camera car and pedal a camera trike to activate their own big-screen tour. They’ll also hear behind the scenes stories from the Google Street view team and see footage of vintage views, including a fateful tour of Market Street just days before the 1906 earthquake and MIT’s groundbreaking Aspen Interactive Movie Map project from 1978. The exhibit shows how camera cars work, examines social impacts from privacy to tourism, and speculates about what the armchair traveler may see 35 years from now.

“We’re the first generation to have casual access to the old dream of ‘surrogate travel’”, said Marc Weber, founding curator of the Museum’s Internet History Program. “Street views let us check out a friend’s new house, or more safely rebuild a city after a disaster. Artists and filmmakers have long tried to immerse viewers in distant scenes, from cave paintings to early 3D movies. We wanted to trace how computers made this process interactive, with the groundbreaking movie maps of the 1970s, and how the modern Web let companies like Google scale it up to become so useful we can take it for granted”.

This exhibit was made possible through the generosity of Google, Inc. 

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