International Space Station Schedule

Upcoming launches and landings of crew members to and from the international space station and launches of rockets delivering spacecraft that observe the earth visit other planets and explore the universe.
International space station schedule. The crosshair marks its current position. Space station iss viewing and sighting information schedule for your location tonight. Enter a city or zip code for times to view it right in your backyard. Spot the station will give you a list of upcoming space station sighting opportunities for your location.
It will lift off from nasa s wallops flight facility in virginia at 9. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv. Visit the nasa johnson flickr photostream. Visible to the naked eye it looks like a fast moving plane only much higher and traveling thousands of miles an hour faster.
It is the third brightest object in the sky and easy to spot if you know when to look up. This map shows the ground track of the international space station s next orbit. Northrop grumman s cygnus ng 14 cargo spacecraft will launch to the international space station on an antares rocket. The blue sections of the iss track indicate when the space station is in the earth s shadow.
Below is a time lapse photo of the space station moving across the sky. The international space station is seen in this 30 second exposure as it flies over elkton va early in the morning saturday august 1 2015. Several times a week mission control at nasa s johnson space center in houston tx determines sighting opportunities for over 6 700 locations worldwide. Watch the international space station pass overhead from several thousand worldwide locations.