A global campaign to coordinate an around-the-world wave to the International Space Station kicked off today. Tonight is a good opportunity for Space Coast residents to participate, if the skies are clear enough.
A bright station pass is expected to start at 6 p.m. EST and last three minutes, moving from the southwest to the northeast, according to NASA's space station sighting planner. Heavans Above shows the pass beginning slightlt earler, at 5:58 p.m.
Check out the ISS Wave campaign Web site for more background on the effort and resources for station sitings. The project extends through New Year's Eve.
Wavers with Twitter accounts are encouraged to send a Tweet with the hashtag "#ISSWave" announcing their wave with their location. An online map logging the tweets will show participation around the world. Follow the tweets here. You can also e-mail your wave details to to "pics@isswave.org".
Click here for a story about the campaign in today's FLORIDA TODAY.
If you can't participate in the wave but would like to share holiday tidings with the station's six-person crew, send an e-card here. Or, looking for a last-minute Christmas gift? Get a free electronic copy of NASA's 2011 space station callendar -- the 10th anniversary edition -- here.
At NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston, a picture of Santa's sleigh has replaced an icon of the station on maps tracking the outpost's orbit.
In a recorded message, three members of the station's Expedition 26 crew offered the following holiday greetings:
"Currently we're orbiting the Earth at 17,500 mph, over 200 miles above our beautiful planet that we should all be thankful to have as a home. I'd like to wish everyone on the planet Earth a happy holidays and a very merry Christmas," said NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, commander of the outpost. "Times are hard all over the world but this is a time when we can all think about being together and treasuring our planet, and we have a pretty nice view of it up here," said NASA astronaut and flight engineer Cady Coleman.
And from Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli: "From up here we see one world, one Earth, and all together we should celebrate this holiday. Merry Christmas, and happy New Year."
Three Russians are also living on the station: Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and Dmitry Kondratyev.
4 comments:
In the process, wave good-bye to the American manned space program!!!
Yeah, wave good-bye to the Space workers who got paid for not doing much the past decade or so. The real credit goes to the engineers who started the manned space program & earned their worth by not becoming redundant. Bye-bye. The new age of space engineers will know better not to sit around for years collecting lucrative salaries living off the past. Don't forget to shut the lights on the way out, guys & gals.
Yes, Lets not forget to wave farewell & good riddings to the Social Welfare Space Program. A bunch of deadbeats left anyways. All those people that work at the Space Center were against the National Health Care program stating it was a Social Welfare Program.
Bad Karma set in and now they are going to gladly take money from the Unemployment Compensation Social Welfare Program and be in need of the National Health Care Plan they opposed.
To begin with the US Tax Payers pay for the Space Program which is nothing more than a GLORIFIED SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAM itself.
Karma is a bee-otch isn't it?
Milk it baby, milk it! Milk that Glorified Social Welfare Program for all it's worth!
Squeeze out every drop!
Space Program which is nothing more than a GLORIFIED SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAM itself.
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