If you search up at the sky for long enough at crepuscule or morning , or take a few second to Google its place , you may see the International Space Station ( ISS ) zipping its way over your head at 28,000 kilometers per time of day ( 17,500 miles per 60 minutes ) .
While seeing it is jolly cool in itself ( who does n’t wish to see an factual quad station with their own oculus ) , there is an even more awesome sight available , which you may have escape over the weekend . That sight did not hedge one Reddit user , though at first they did not know what they were bet at .
" I see something following the ISS tonight , " a post from exploiter Capa - ricciaexplained . " Tonight I Saw the ISS very absolved and bright . I regard also a smaller clean dot keep up it on the button . What could it be ? "
A few others also claimed to have seen visible light trailing the ISS on Sunday .
" Damn , I saw these two objects yesterday Nox here in Italy at the coastline and me and my girlfriend were wondering if these are two satellites , " Chrisfrombwrote . " Just indiscriminately scroll through Reddit now and your postal service pops up . "
So what was it ? As everybody pointed out , Sunday was the day that the Crew-9 mission arrive anddocked with the ISS .
The sight they in all likelihood come across was the approach and docking , NASA cosmonaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov ’s ride into the revolve scientific discipline lab . The two should have been link up by two further astronauts , but accompany the problems withBoeing ’s Starliner ballistic capsule , two seats were left empty on circuit board the Dragon capsule . These seats will be used by astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore when they retort to Earth in February 2025 .
While expectant intelligence for the astronaut await for their drive home , it was a pretty just mountain from down below .
" Wow ! The docking is visible on the ISS live now app , " Capa - riccia added , when they realise what they were seeing . " Forgive my exuberance but it ’s the first time I witness something like that . "
