With Google Maps you can explore the International Space Station

Using Street View technology, the search engine takes users inside the ISS. It is also possible to use a simulator to experience docking maneuvers. Google Maps takes users on a virtual tour of the International Space Station (photo: Google Maps) Google passes the doors of the International Space Station (Iss) thanks to a virtual tour uploaded to Google Maps. Two weeks have passed since the launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon shuttle, renamed Endeavor during the mission, which brought a crew launched from the US soil with a new generation shuttle onto the ISS. Created with the collaboration of five different space agencies (NASA, Esa, Roscosmos, Csa and Jaxa), the ISS performs around 15.5 orbits per day and is a modular laboratory that travels at a speed of about 27,600 km / h in the low orbit of our planet.

It can accommodate up to 6 people at a time. But in order to be able to see it from the inside, even without being an astronaut, Google thought of reconstructing a virtual tour in images, using the technology of the street view of Maps. Unlike astronauts, who must be launched into orbit to reach the ISS, web users will need a simple click to be transported within the various modules of the orbiting station.

By accessing the virtual tour from a device mobile, it is possible to use its motion sensors to explore the interior of the station at 360 degrees. From desktop just use the mouse to interact with the tour, click on the points of interest in order to learn how they work thanks to the additional notes entered by Big G.

Even if only in a virtual Google ago relive the experience lived in first person from the astronauts such as Italian Samantha Cristoforetti, Paolo Nespoli and Luca Parmitano and all the others who have stayed there, and staying still now, on the Iss. To have a complete experience, before the tour, it is possible to perform a docking with the international space Station taking advantage of the simulator of the maneuvers of docking used by SpaceX aboard his shuttle. Once you have parked correctly, the shuttle will climb on board the Iss, all virtually.