{"id":6864,"date":"2014-05-21T08:16:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderowbotham.com\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2014-05-21T08:16:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:16:54","slug":"the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderowbotham.com\/the-iss","title":{"rendered":"The ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/17074538?v=3&amp;wmode=direct\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><a style=\"margin: 0; padding: 2px 0px; width: 100%; display: block; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/iss-hdev-payload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Live stream from the ISS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At 05.45\u00a0on a weekday morning before work in March 2012, I trudged out into the back garden to look up at the sky. It was before dawn and overcast.<\/p>\n<p>I'd signed up for <a title=\"Spot The Station\" href=\"http:\/\/spotthestation.nasa.gov\/\">Spot The Station<\/a>\u00a0email alerts\u00a0some months\u00a0earlier but had since\u00a0stopped paying attention to them.\u00a0Then\u00a0someone I follow on Twitter\u00a0mentioned that the ISS was due over Cambridge the following day. I don't live far from Cambridge (not that, given the station's orbital height is 370km, the exact location is important) so I checked the latest NASA\u00a0email to find the exact time and where in the sky I should be looking.<\/p>\n<p>The information they provide is incredibly detailed. Here are the\u00a0forthcoming sighting times for where I live:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6872\" src=\"https:\/\/aderowbotham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/iss-sighting-times-PE9-1024x481.png\" alt=\"iss-sighting-times-PE9\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Given the overcast sky it didn't look promising but in the minute leading up to the specified time the cloud broke up so it seemed like there was a chance of spotting the station intermittently depending on its path.<\/p>\n<p>Something like 20 seconds into the scheduled minute of appearance (just late enough for me to concede that I'd probably got the time wrong), the ISS slipped majestically into view and I stood with my neck craned for the roughly three minutes it took to cross the sky to the far horizon. With the naked eye it's just a point of light but impressive nonetheless. All remaining cloud broke up ahead of it so the entire transition was uninterrupted. And as it passed the zenith I goofily and self-consciously waved up at the crew.<\/p>\n<p>30 minutes later I was driving, as I did at the time, to Peterborough railway station to catch the East Coast service to King's Cross. Radio 4 brought news of renewed clashes in the Gaza Strip. Several teenagers had been killed in an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, usually when tired, I'll slip into an unusually contemplative state of mind where I become fixated on how some remote observer might view our species. This is influenced, among other things I suppose, by Carl Sagan's <a title=\"Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan's reflections\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pale_Blue_Dot#Reflections_by_Sagan\">Pale Blue Dot<\/a>.\u00a0It can be a bit overwhelming to consider our collective daily goings-on in the un-blinkered context of our little planet hurtling through the bewildering infinity of space. This is by no means a unique or uncommon train of thought, I'm sure...<\/p>\n<p>But this was one of those moments. Watching that speeding point of light that morning had brought a sense of marvel at what we can achieve when intelligent, inquisitive people work together. Projects like the ISS and the LHC at CERN are for me great symbols of hope. And yet at the same time the great Shakespearean tragedy of human conflict continues to play out. The juxtaposition of the two that morning forced me to pull over for a moment to compose myself.<\/p>\n<p>...<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, last week, amid rising tensions between Russia and the US over Ukraine, Russia <a title=\"Space Station in CRISIS: Furious Russia threatens to BAN US from ISS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/05\/14\/russian_rocket_ruckus_irrationally_imperils_iss\/\">threatened to pull the plug<\/a> on the ISS partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live stream from the ISS At 05.45\u00a0on a weekday morning before work in March 2012, I trudged out into the back garden to look up at the sky. It was before dawn and overcast. 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