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Mary M.
  • Mary M.
  • Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • United States

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Have you seen the ISS?

Did you know that the international space station is visible at night from various points on earth?

You can check out where it is at any time of day by going to this link

http://iss.astroviewer.net

Have you personally seen it? It looks like a bright white light travelling across the sky, it is really neat to think that there are humans up there orbiting the earth and looking down on us.

What are your thoughts on the space station?

Can anyone explain in layman's terms how it stays in a particular orbit?

This is also a video on TED you might enjoy:

video-cady-coleman-talks-to-ted2011-from-the-international-space-station

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Krisztian and Ed........thank you so much for his interchange of ideas and information.

Keep looking up!!!

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    Feb 23 2013: Shoot a bullet out of a gun. It will go straight then fall. Do the same from the top of the leaning tower of Pizza (when no one is around). It will go farther because the distance to the ground (it falls at an angle) is greater. Do the same on top of Mt Everest, and it will go much further before it falls because it has so far to fall. Now go to a point in space and shoot that gun again. The bullet will continue to fall to earth, but because the earth is a sphere, it falls along the same lines as the earth's curved surface.

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      Feb 23 2013: Very simple explanation. Great for kids.

      Thank you so much.

      Have you seen the ISS?

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