On 12/17/2017 10:25 AM, wrote:
Saw the International Space Station last night for the first time. It
rose in the north western sky right on schedule at 6:54 PM. It was
the brightest thing in the sky at that time and very easy to spot. I
tracked it with 12x stabilized binoculars hoping that I could see some
detail but not quite. You could tell that it was quite large however
and moving incredibly fast against the backdrop of distant stars. The
whole passage from horizon to horizon took only 4 minutes and passed
almost directly overhead. NASA has a good tracking site he

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/


I've seen it a couple of times. The first time I didn't know what it
was. I knew it wasn't a high flying airplane, so I went on-line to
research it. It's really cool to imagine the crew that are aboard and
the amount of time some of them spend "free falling" in space.

One of the sightings I saw was during Scott Kelly's one year flight.
Scientists compared his physiological condition to that of his earth
bound twin brother, Mark Kelly.