Google has just released Street View’s first gravity-free collection – letting you virtually explore the International Space Station (ISS) in 360-degree imagery from Google Maps and Earth. The ISS in Street View was captured in partnership with NASA, ESA, JAXA, Roscosmos and CASIS.
With this launch, users are invited to tour all 15 modules of the ISS. This is the first Street View collection with annotations, a feature previously only available for Google Arts and Culture museums. Now as you walk through the modules of the ISS in Google Maps, you’ll see clear and useful annotations highlighting things like where the astronauts work out to stay physically fit, what kind of food they eat, and where they do scientific experiments.
Since November 2000, the International Space Station has been home to astronauts from around the world, studying what happens to people when they live and work in space. Several countries worked together to build and use the ISS; the spacecraft houses science labs from the United States, Japan, Russia and Europe.
Street View started out as Larry Page’s far-fetched idea to create a 360-degree map of the world and the project recently celebrated 10 years of imagery from around the world.
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