International Space Station To Fly Over Metro Detroit
By Edward Cardenas
SOUTHFIELD (CBS Detroit) - Skywatchers will be able to catch a glimpse of the International Space Station in the coming days as its orbit brings it over metro Detroit.
If the skies are clear, the space station will appear as a star streaking across the sky.
Upcoming viewing times include:
- 7:13 p.m. Thursday, for 3 minutes traveling across the sky from the south, southwest to the east, southeast,
- 6:21 p.m. Friday, for 3 minutes traveling across the sky from the south, southwest to the east, southeast,
- 7:58 p.m. Friday, for 1 minute traveling across the sky from the west, to the west, northwest,
- 7:05 p.m. Saturday, for 3 minutes traveling across the sky from the west, southwest to the northeast,
- 6:17 p.m. Sunday, for less than one minute as it travels across the sky on an arc in east, northeast sky,
- 7:49 p.m. Sunday, for one minute as it travels across the sky from the west, northwest to the north, northwest.
The station, which has a crew of two NASA astronauts, three Russian cosmonauts and one European Space Agency astronaut, are aboard the space station which is nearly 220 miles above the earth and orbiting at 17,500 miles per hour.
