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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

International Space Station now visible during daylight hours


There is a picture over at the Space Weather web site showing a clearly visible ISS photographed during daylight hours, wow! It is interesting to project forward to what will be visible in the sky 50 years from now. I remember reading Clark, Heinlein on Science Fiction and looking at Chesley Bonestell drawing of amazing space scenes 40 years ago and now the ISS is visible to the naked eye from all over the surface of the planet. Going to be neat!


ISS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: After 11 years of construction, the International Space Station has grown so large you can see it in broad daylight. "On June 13th, I was watching a red-headed woodpecker's nest when the ISS passed overhead," says Brooke O'Klatner of Charlotte, North Carolina. Follow the curved branch to find the spaceship:


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