• Question: is the out side of iss dirty

    Asked by Rowhyn to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Sometimes it can get some rocket exhaust on it, but mostly it’s pretty clean 🙂

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      I’m looking at it now in the ISS external cameras and it looks pretty clean! Kirsty’s right about propellant – it tends to be attracted to the outside of the space station because it’s the only thing in nearby space and when you do reboosts, vehicle docking/undocking or venting the external payloads will mostly seal themselves to protect from unwanted particles contaminating their instruments. You can check out the ISS with live cameras here and see how clean it looks http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream

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