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LB Got Beautiful View As Int'l Space Stn -- Carrying Four Space-X Launched Astronauts -- Orbited By LB Thurs Nite (Nov. 18); Another Viewing Opportunity Tomorrow (Nov. 19). LBREPORT.com Has Details Here

LBREPORT.com publisher Bill Pearl (with a lifelong interest in the future of space exploration and travel) was the only LB reporter aboard the Zero Gravity weightless flight from LB Airport on Oct. 25



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(November 18, 2020, 6:55 p.m.. updated Nov. 19, 5:50 p.m.) -- Did you see it? As previewed by LBBREPORT.com, Long Beach got a beautiful view of as the International Space Station (ISS) -- carrying four astronauts launched and conveyed to the ISS in Elon Musk's Space X-designed/built capsule aboard Space X designed/built rocketry (successfully recovered by Space X) -- orbited by Long Beach on November 18 and Nov. 19.

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On Thursday Nov. 19, the ISS will become visible at 5:33:38 p.m. in the SW sky, rose to a height of 62 degrees in the SE at 5:36:57 p.m. and then disappeared in the NE sky at 5:39:26 p.m.

That tiny light we saw crossing our sky is now 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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