A Behind-the-Scenes Look at That Amazing GoPro Footage From Space

Recently, NASA released some pretty spectacular footage captured by an astronaut wearing a GoPro camera while spacewalking around the International Space Station. In the videos, Earth slowly rotates below the space station while astronauts fiddle with cables, install antennae, and work on the robotic arm.

You can see both videos here (and we’ve included some screen grabs in the gallery above).

The astronaut wearing the camera is Terry Virts, and his fellow spacewalker is Barry “Butch” Wilmore. The team had stepped outside to reconfigure parts of the space station so future crewed spacecraft can dock. You can see some of the work they do in each of the two videos, which

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