How to visit the ISS online: virtual tour

Spacex plans send the first tourists to the ISS next year. They will have two days of travel back and forth and at least eight days on board the station. The cost of tickets for such a trip will be about $ 55 million - a huge amount, and the risks are considerable. However, in fact, you can actually look at the International Space Station from the inside for free, sitting at home on the couch, through Google Arts & Culture.

Using this service, you can go on a virtual tour of the ISS. It will allow you to explore the various modules of the station with their narrow passages and compartments, which are literally entwined with various communications and electronic equipment. You can move and look around using mouse clicks or keys on the keyboard (arrows and W, A, S, D). The wheel on the mouse can be used to adjust the viewing angle.

Take a tour of the ISS →

Google Arts & Culture has a whole section on space exploration. In it you can get acquainted with the unique personnel of the training of astronauts and various space missions, including the first spacewalk and landing on the moon.

In addition, Google Arts & Culture offers many virtual tours of contemporary museums and exhibition halls around the world. And with one of the updates in his mobile app appeared search function for your counterparts in paintings by famous artists.

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Google Arts & Culture

Developer: Google LLC

Price: Free