The Soyuz spacecraft took of in a snowstorm last week for a heavenly rendezvous with the International Space Station on Thursday. The Soyuz craft is carrying three astronauts as part of a replacement crew for the ISS. Soyuz will dock shortly after midnight early on November 16th. The Soyuz craft will remain tdocked with ISS until November 21st, and it will then ferry three of the older ISS crew members back down to Earth.
If you live along the East Coast of the United States, head out early in the morning to look for flybys of the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station nearly every day this week. Flybys will occur from about 4am to about 6am just before the sun rises.
One of my favorite websites for determining the bast times to look is http://heavens-above.com. The heavens-above site offers accurate predictions with a large geographic database.
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I live in Petawawa,ON Canada and on my way into work this morning I seen, what looked like a shooting star but much bigger and brighter shoot into the sky. It was around 6:45am already light out, and you could clearly see it!! Amazing!
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