Time lapsed video from the ISS

[JJVP]

Great video from the ISS. Earth at night. Cities look like rivers of lava. Surprised at all the thunderstorms. Great shot of the aurora borealis.

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[Dave2]

Cool!

[WildBill]

Cool!

That's more than cool. Awesome! What is amazing is that this is real and not some computer generated graphic.
I know it's the ISS, but the USA made it happen.

[sjfcontrol]

Cool!

That's more than cool. Awesome! What is amazing is that this is real and not some computer generated graphic.
I know it's the ISS, but the USA made it happen.

Is it run by a crazy russian?

[WildBill]

Cool!

That's more than cool. Awesome! What is amazing is that this is real and not some computer generated graphic.
I know it's the ISS, but the USA made it happen.

Is it run by a crazy russian?

Crazy Ivan

[Keith B]

I actually had several amateur radio contacts with the Russian MIR space station (before it fell out of orbit), 3 different shuttles and the ISS. I actually coordinated the first SAREX (Shuttle Amateur Radio EXperiment) in Missouri between a elementary school and the space shuttle. Making those contacts was pretty neat. One of the shuttle contacts I made was especially memorable as I got to talk to one of the mission specialists on board who was from the town I was living in. I had become friends with her before the contact when she and I were judges at a district science fair. I ended up seeing her again the next year at the science fair again when she returned to help judge, and have been able to see her briefly a couple of times when I have gone to JSC in Houston for the annual balloon festival.