When is space station overhead

If you are still experiencing issues, please describe the problem below and we will be happy to assist you. Twenty years after the first crew arrived, the space station has hosted residents and grown from three cramped and humid rooms to a complex almost as long as a football field, with six sleeping compartments, three toilets, a domed lookout and three high-tech labs.

The International Space Station is expected to offer a great evening, naked eye viewing opportunity as it passes over central Pennsylvania this week. The ISS will appear in our sky at p. Friday, September 17 at 10 degrees above the southwest horizon. Each 10 degrees in vertical space is about the width of a fist at the end of an outstretched arm.

Over the next six minutes it will move to northeast, rising to a maximum height of 83 degrees before disappearing at 13 degrees above northeast. A lesser viewing opportunity will occur at p.

Thursday, Sept. It will also be moving considerably faster than a typical airplane airplanes generally fly at about miles per hour; the space station flies at 17, miles per hour. Although this high-flying satellite can be seen from the ground, it passes by quickly, so it helps to know where to look. This tool allows users to enter their location and find the best places in a mile radius to view the station as it passes over them, according to a statement from NASA.

The service notifies users of passes that are high enough in the sky to be easily visible over trees, buildings and other objects on the horizon," NASA officials said in the statement. The widget was released earlier this year, NASA officials said.

The first component of the space station was flown into space in Since then, the orbiting lab has been pieced together to create the complex structure that is now approximately the size of a U. The launch of Spot the Station falls on the year anniversary of humans living and working continuously aboard the station.

The Spot the Station tool also allows users to sign up to receive an email or text message notifying them the station will soon be visible in their selected area.