Don’t be a stick in the mud, if you have clear skies tonight, or any time this month the International Space Station will be passing within view of the United States many many times and you should be able to pick it out in the sky. If you have a telescope you are in even better luck to view the International Space Station. Either way it’s worth stepping outside to take a look at another cool engineering marvel. The ISS with it’s latest additions is now one of the brightest objects in the night sky. It is 15 times brighter than the brightest star, Sirius.
So pop over to the NASA Human Space Flight sattelite tracker info for the US, choose a state, city and then go outside and look up in the sky in the directions it mentions, at the times it mentioned, and you should be able to experience the repeating surprise and wonder at seeing a man made object flying through the sky hundreds of miles above the earth.
If you’re not in the US, you can still go to the main NASA Human Space Flight tracker page, choose your country from the drop down in the bottom left corner and get to work.
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