| (March 17, 2021) -- Later today (March 17) shortly before 8 p.m.,the International Space Station's orbit will take it a bit south of Long Beach, orbiting from SW to NE. I will be a good viewing opportunity **IF** forecast clouds don't interfere. (As of early aftenoon Mar. 17, the Nat'l Weather Service forecasts a "partly cloudy" sky.)
The spacecraft will become visible in the SW sky at aboaut 7:54 p.m. rising to roughly 66 degrees high in the SE sky at 7:57 p.m., before descending in the NE sky at 8:00 p.m. Since November 2020, the tiny light we may see crossing our sky has been carrying four Space X Crew-1 members: Mission Commander/NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins; NASA astronaut/Pilot Victor Glover plus NASA Astronaut Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
Photo shows astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, second from left, Michael Hopkins, second from right, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky . |
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