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Use the Subscribe Box at the bottom of the right column. WATCH HISTORY LIVE TODAY – Launch of Astronauts on SpaceX Demo-2 Mission 3:22 pm ET, May 30, 2020 May 30, 2020 SSEP Teachable Moment – WATCH LIVE – Video of Earth from the International Space Station, with Music May 10, 2020 For all recent news, Jump to the SSEP National Blog ; or visit the full SSEP News Archive Multimedia (click on toggles below) ISS Current Location The ISS Current Location tracker above was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA’s Columbus laboratory is a component of the ISS. Visit the ESA website for more information on the tracker. HDEV Live View of Earth from ISS If the image is black, you may be using a less than optimal browser such as Safari (try Chrome), or ISS is on the night side of Earth. To check, use the ‘ISS Current Location’ above. Note: ISS orbits Earth in 90 minutes, with 45 minutes of daylight followed by 45 minutes of darkness. This high definition video of your world is being telemetered to Earth LIVE from the International Space Station. To determine what portion of Earth is in view, use the ‘ISS Current Location’ toggle above. We invite you to get into the spirit of exploration on the frontiers of space – select an audio file below, expand the HDEV video window to full screen, and look down from 250 miles above Earth’s surface. Suggestions for other audio tracks are welcome:) David Bowie’s Space Oddity, sung by Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield on ISS ( watch his video ) http://ssep.ncesse.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Space-Oddity.mp3 Superman http://ssep.ncesse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Superman_Theme.mp3 Star Trek TNG http://ssep.ncesse.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/star-trek-thenextgeneration.mp3 About HDEV, from NASA: The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module. HDEV includes four fixed cameras positioned to capture imagery of the Earth’s surface and its limb as seen from the ISS – one camera pointing in the direction the station is moving, two cameras aft (wake), and one camera pointing straight down at Earth (nadir). While the experiment is operational, views will typically sequence though the different cameras. Between camera switches, a gray and then black color slate will briefly appear. To learn more about the HDEV experiment, visit this NASA webpage. Twitter Feed with Images from Astronauts Currently Aboard ISS Tweets from https://twitter.com/doctorjeff/lists/aboard-iss-now Spot the Station: When Will ISS Fly Over Your Town? You may not know this, but the International Space Station is the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon, and has been flying over your head in plain sight (and likely unnoticed) for many years. NASA’s Spot the Station website has been allowing the general public to determine when Station will be flying overhead, and even allows you to sign up for email notification in advance of a Station over-flight of your community. In late 2015, the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education suggested to NASA Headquarters that a Spot the Station widget, which could be easily embedded on any website, would be a wonderful way to extend ISS public awareness. The widget below was the result, and you’ll note that it is also found in the right column on all main pages of this SSEP website. You are invited to use the widget to explore Station over-flights of your community, and even embed this widget on your website by clicking on the “About” button in the widget. SSEP MISSIONS 14 to 16 TO THE INTERNATIONAL S...