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Here are a few highlights, if you still need convincing.

You get to hear space narration given in a British accent. You also get to hear astronauts describe, in Russian accents, various stages, such as the decoupling of the orbital module and instrument component from the descent module (“it felt like there was somebody outside of the space craft with a sledge hammer…it felt really interesting, actually”). Accents make everything better—even space.

The video reveals how the descent module survives reentry without burning up, what passing through plasma is like for the astronauts, and how the capsule maintains its trajectory and control when landing. The astronauts also describe what gravity feels like after having spent so much time without it, and what the winds sound like as the capsule completes its descent to Earth (“it’s much worse than a roller coaster”). Throughout the video you see the astronauts still in their spacesuits (take note, Sandra Bullock!), but all clutching copies of the operations manual. And should the automatic navigation system fail, the astronauts can manually land the capsule. According to the, “The soft landing is not really soft,” apparently it’s more like a “head-on collision.” I’ve read the fact examinaitons of Gravity and…yeah. Seeing this capsule land—it looks like a bomb exploded, with dirt mushrooming up all around it—makes the ending of that movie even less plausible, but who cares, it’s space. If we can’t get there, we can at least dream about it. Still, I have to wonder whether this video will give would-be space tourists any pause, or whether it will fuel excitement for potential cosmic travels.