(NASA)Īfter years of planning and negotiation, the ISS has become a truly international venture. The first ISS module Zarya as seen from the space shuttle Endeavour in December 1998. Other countries were invited to participate as well. President Ronald Reagan, during his 1984 State of the Union address, committed the United States to developing a permanently-occupied space station that would not only involve NASA. The space agency suggests people choose the location nearest to them if they can’t find their specific position on the list. NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, calculates and updates ISS sighting information twice a week for more 4,600 cities and towns throughout the world.
NASA says it will send notification messages for good sightings only, which is when the ISS passes high enough in the sky to be easily seen over objects like trees and buildings. Also, the new service won’t waste your time or eat up text message units by sending useless information. People who sign up for “Spot the Station” will be able set their alerts for morning or evening sightings, or both. Most of the world’s population should be able to see the ISS since it passes over more than 90 percent of people living on Earth. The space station’s size and brightness are about the same as the planet Venus. 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. Next to the moon, it is the brightest object in the night sky. The ISS, which flies about 322 km above us, is usually best glimpsed either at dawn or dusk. Shepherd, mission commander and cosmonaut Sergei K. Gidzenko, Soyuz commander astronaut William M.
The Expedition 1 crew, the first humans aboard the International Space Station in November 2000, enjoy a snack.
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