Watch the first ever 360-degree video of a spacewalk
The crew on the International Space Station has shot the first ever 360-degree video of a spacewalk. The video shows Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryazansky and Fyodor Yurchikhin launching five nano-satellites outside the ISS next to a 360-degree camera, though it’s not clear what camera they were using. The two cosmonauts captured the video during a 7.5-hour spacewalk in August where they also underwent maintenance tasks. The clip is about 3.5 minutes long. It was produced by news site RT with the Russian space agency Roscosmos and spacecraft producer Energia.
The footage is actually quite incredible, and you have full control over where to look, from the quite detailed ISS to a slightly disconcerting, but beautiful planet Earth. The two...