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A lot of people do not realize that they can see the International Space Station (ISS) with their own eyes. To watch the ISS is to visualize one million pounds of space hardware the size of a football field traveling at 17,500 miles per hour about 250 miles up, carrying 3,6, or 9 humans. Oh, and ISS has done so continuously for seventeen years!
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Redfern, G.I. (2018). Spotting the International Space Station and Other Satellites. In: Cruise Ship Astronomy and Astrophotography. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00958-8_11
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