Keystone Weekly
volume 4, issue 6        October 28, 2002

This week's Key Points: *Web Pick of the Week* and *Awesome Science!*
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Where is the International Space Station right now? The International Space Station (ISS) orbits our planet about sixteen times every day while it is being built. The brightest "star" in the sky is viewable about once every day, although the best time for viewing is at dusk and dawn. During the next week, Pennsylvanians can see the ISS between approximately 4:20 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. (depending on the day). To find out more about viewing times and details, visit the site above. Click on "sightings by city" and chose a town close to you.

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Continuing with our space theme today, we couldn't resist sharing these amazing videos with you. NASA offers this gallery of videos that they filmed of the mission to build the International Space Station. Be sure to check out the first video of space shuttle Atlantis launching from Kennedy Space Center--in many views, the camera is on the outside of the apparatus, facing down towards the launch pad, so you really feel like you're riding the shuttle up into space as well, watching Earth get smaller and more distant. It's an amazing experience that you might want to share with your students as well. On this page, there is also a video of the shuttle's payload doors opening while in orbit to reveal (relatively) nearby Earth, and of a message from the shuttle's inhabitants to friends and family back on Earth.

And this is just on the first day! Click through the index on the bottom of the page to see what the astronauts were up to on the following days.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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