Posted on 12/13/2017 7:30:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
Three space travelers will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) tonight after a six-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Cramped inside a small Soyuz space capsule, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy will undock from the ISS early tomorrow morning (Dec. 14) at 12:14 a.m. EST (0514 GMT). You can watch their journey home live here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV.
NASA TV will begin airing live coverage at 8:30 p.m. today (Dec. 13) as the members of the spacefaring trio bid farewell to the three remaining crewmembers, settle into the Soyuz capsule and close the hatch. After the crew undocks from the space station's Rassvet module, the travelers will spend about 3.5 hours heading back to Earth
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No farting!............
How I WISH we still had our own delivery system for our astronauts..........THANKS, OBAMA /s
Well, yeees, but think what Obola’s program has done for raghead pride and self respect. Except for the guy in NYC Monday, they’re building better bombs and using much sharper knives to behead Christians, and stuff./S!
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I was lucky enough to watch a shuttle re-entry from my front yard in Fort Worth one cool clear night. It was impressive.
We might have seen the same one. It's a sight you'll never forget.
According to iss.astroviewer.net, we're in the midst of a period where the ISS will be visible in our area. It's a great website, gives you the times, brightness of path of ISS.
That’s a great site... thanks for the reminder. I’ll have another good viewing Friday evening, it will be traveling directly overhead.
My pleasure...I used the website when we were on vacation in Charleston SC. It was really cool, walking on the beach at 5AM, with a sky clear enough to follow it.
I was in the US Navy Boot Camp at RTC Orlando from Oct 1988 through Dec 1988. We did get to watch one launch, although it was “down the road” at KSC from us. Still lit up the sky pretty good.
There’s a site I signed up for that sends me a text when the ISS will be visible from my location. I can’t find it now.. of course... ugh!
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