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NASA Makes it Easier to Spot Space Station – Video

Posted: March 12, 2013 at 4:47 pm


Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1AvYq8oITk



NASA Makes it Easier to Spot Space Station
NASA is making it easier to spot the International Space Station (ISS) with the naked eye. The US space agency is offering a new service which alerts people a few hours before the space station is visible flying overhead. Enthusiasts who sign up the new service, Spot the Station, will receive notifications via email or text message. The program coincides with the Nov. 2 12-year anniversary of ISS crews living and working continuously aboard the orbiting space station. "It #39;s really remarkable to see the space station fly overhead and to realize humans built an orbital complex that can be spotted from Earth by almost anyone looking up at just the right moment," says NASA #39;s William Gerstenmaier. "We #39;re accomplishing science on the space station that is helping to improve life on Earth and paving the way for future exploration of deep space." The Expedition 1 crew, the first humans aboard the International Space Station in November 2000, enjoy a snack. From left, cosmonaut Yuri P. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander; astronaut William M. Shepherd, mission commander; and cosmonaut Sergei K. Krikalev, flight engineer. (NASA) The ISS, which flies about 322 km above us, is usually best glimpsed either at dawn or dusk. Next to the moon, it is the brightest object in the night sky. On a clear night, NASA says the space station can be seen as a point of light traveling at about the speed of a fast-moving airplane. The space station #39;s size and brightness are about the same as the planet Venus ...

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