It's a bird, it's a plane, no ... it's the space station The
International Space Station about 354 kilometres above Earth.
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International Space Station is visible overhead thanks to NASA's
new web app Spot the Station. The International Space Station's
orbit 200 miles (322 kilometres) above Earth makes it visible to
more than 90 per cent of the Earth's population, NASA said. The
trick is knowing when to look for it. NASA's Johnson Space
Centre already calculates the sighting information several times
a week for more than 4600 locations worldwide. With its new web
app, it shares that information with the space-obsessed public.
As long as you know where to look, the International Space
Station is pretty easy to see, NASA said. It is the third-
brightest object in the sky after the sun and the moon, and it
looks like a fast moving point of light about the size and
brightness of the planet Ven