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We each make about one move per day, and flight controllers help us with physically moving our pieces on the board at We are very much amateur chess players, but we were nevertheless… /ZPl7N2lxAvĬheck out our expert analysis of this extraterrestrial game, provided by GM Rafael Leitao, below. Playing from space, Frank Rubio, Woody Hoburg, Sultan Alneyadi, and Steve Bowen took on flight directors playing from Earth in NASA's Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center.įor the past few weeks we’ve been playing chess, ISS vs Mission Control. According to a Reddit post by NASA, each team made one or two moves per day. The ISS won the first game on April 16, the same day as game six of the world championship. The ISS is actually visible from Earth as its orbit is just 220 miles above the Earth's. The first game occurred concurrently with the FIDE World Chess Championship 2023, where GM Ding Liren beat GM Ian Nepomniachtchi to become the 17th world champion. The spacecraft houses science labs from the United States, Japan, Russia and several European countries. Stay tuned here for Ken’s continuing Earth and planetary science and human spaceflight news.NASA literally took chess out of this world in April as the International Space Station (ISS), situated in space, played against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mission Control, on Earth. Virts just returned home from the station last week, as detailed in my story here. So be sure to check out my popular story about the dazzling image of the Great Pyramids from the space station taken by NASA astronaut Terry Virts – the commander of Expedition 43. Meanwhile, the human crews aboard the ISS continue to capture breathtaking imagery with hand held cameras. Their medium-resolution, Theia, achieved IOC status in 2014 “and is actively filling orders for imagery and data.”īoth cameras were flown to the ISS on Russian spacecraft and installed on the exterior of the Russian segment by Russian cosmonauts. UrtheCast says it expects Iris to achieve Initial Operation Capability (IOC) status sometime this summer.

To the left of the frame, high atop Montjuïc hill, lies the site of the 1992 Olympics, settled against the shore of the Balearic Sea. Colourful shipping containers zip around the Port of Barcelona in this ‘First Light’ UrtheCast video, captured at roughly one-meter resolution from the International Space Station.