On Monday evening, February 18, 2008, in El Dorado, Arkansas, we were able to see the International Space Station (ISS) and a Space Shuttle orbiting the earth. I was able to snap a few pictures of this awesome sight as the ISS hurried across the sky. Ben said it was the "coolest thing he's ever seen!" Check out the pictures we took below.
If conditions are right, you can see satellites and other spacecraft -- such as the space shuttle or the International Space Station -- clearly from the ground. Satellites appear as small, steady, extremely fast-moving points of light. The International Space Station is now one of the most visible objects in the sky. Most sightings follow a west-to-east path and the spacecraft appear over the western horizon and disappear over the eastern in a matter of a few minutes.
This is a picture that we got on NASA.gov of the Internation Space Station up close.
To check out when the next sightings will be available, you can go tohttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
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