Walking the ISS in Virtual Reality: A Reporter’s Space Daydream Realized

A Space.com writer experiences Space Explorers: The ISS Experience in VR at a Manhattan venue, stepping through a life-size, camera-enabled recreation of the International Space Station. The show uses NASA footage and camera setups inside and outside the station, guided by astronauts with a “shooting script” approach to filming, creating a vivid sense of the ISS and Earth from orbit. The piece highlights VR as a powerful medium to share the ISS story with the public and notes the real station’s uncertain future, including a possible deorbit around 2030.