{"id":14819,"date":"2016-10-08T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=14819"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T22:43:16","slug":"find-out-when-the-international-space-station-is-flying-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/10\/08\/find-out-when-the-international-space-station-is-flying-overhead\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Out When the International Space Station is Flying Overhead!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did you know the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\">International Space Station<\/a> (ISS) is VISIBLE to the human eye?! It is!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOK! Here&#8217;s what the\u00a0International Space Station looked like\u00a0(in a\u00a030-second exposure) as it flew\u00a0over Elkton, Virginia\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, August 1, 2015:<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14823\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SpotTheStationPic.jpg\" alt=\"spotthestationpic\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>photo by\u00a0NASA\/Bill Ingalls<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know you can also find out WHEN the ISS will be visible to YOU? YOU CAN!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/Spot The Station\">SPOT the STATION<\/a>. When you get there, type in your country, state, and city and you&#8217;ll find out when it will be visible to YOU! How cool!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Or, try it HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline-block; border: 1px solid #CCC; border-radius: 6px; -webkit-border-radius: 6px; -o-border-radius: 6px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; width: 310px; height: 450px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/spotthestation.nasa.gov\/widget\/widget2.cfm\" width=\"310\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>How will you know it&#8217;s the ISS and not a star or airplane?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The space station looks like an airplane or a very bright star moving across the sky, except it doesn\u2019t have flashing lights or change direction. It will also be moving considerably faster than a typical airplane (airplanes generally fly at about 600 miles (965 km) per hour; the space station flies at 17,500 miles (28,000 km) per hour).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>If you go <a href=\"https:\/\/spotthestation.nasa.gov\/signup.cfm\">HERE<\/a>, you can set up email or text alerts so you don&#8217;t miss out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way, this is what Hurricane Matthew looked like from the ISS! Wow!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BLH1Ok7Aeag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cameras outside the International Space Station captured dramatic views of Hurricane Matthew as the orbiting laboratory flew 250 miles over the storm at 4:15 p.m. EDT today. Packing winds of 140 miles an hour as a Category 4 hurricane, Matthew is expected to remain a powerful hurricane through early Wednesday. (video speed 4x) #hurricane #hurricanematthew #matthew #space #spacestation #nasa #internationalspacestation #weather<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A video posted by International Space Station (@iss) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-04T01:21:23+00:00\">Oct 3, 2016 at 6:21pm PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iss\/\">Follow the ISS on Instagram<\/a> for more cool shots like this!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know the International Space Station (ISS) is VISIBLE to the human eye?! It is! LOOK! Here&#8217;s what the\u00a0International Space Station looked like\u00a0(in a\u00a030-second exposure) as it flew\u00a0over Elkton, Virginia\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday, August 1, 2015: photo by\u00a0NASA\/Bill Ingalls Did you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14832,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14819\/revisions\/14832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}